Lazarus Goldschmidt (Editor). Der Traktat Neziqin. Codex Hebraicum XIX Bibl. Hamburg. (The Hamburg Codex Facsimile)
AUCTION 24 |
Tuesday, June 29th,
2004 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg
Lot 205
(TALMUD)
Lazarus Goldschmidt (Editor). Der Traktat Neziqin. Codex Hebraicum XIX Bibl. Hamburg. (The Hamburg Codex Facsimile)
Berlin: 1913
Est: $2,000 - $2,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,700
Colossal fascsimile of the monumental Hamburg Codex, the earliest Sephardic manuscript of the entire Order of Nezikin. It was written in Gerona, Spain, in the year 1234.
According to the Ba’al Hame’or, R. Zerachiah Halevi, writing in the final chapter of Baba Kamma, “the Medieval and pre-medieval Hebrew Manuscripts from Spain are overwhelmingly more precise and textually exact than manuscripts composed in Aschenazic locales.”
Needless to say, the present manuscript contains numerous and significant textual variants from the printed edition.
Apparantly almost all copies of this facsimile were destroyed in World War II during the Allied bombing of Hamburg.
From a limited edition of just 75, the present copy is one of a handful exceptionaly bound and printed on Regal paper