Baba Kama [on Torts and Civil Law]. With commentary of Rashi and Tosfoth. Edited by David ben Elazar Ha-Levi (Pizzighetone)

AUCTION 26 | Monday, November 22nd, 2004 at 1:00

Exceptional Printed Books, Sixty-Five Hebrew Incunabula: The Elkan Nathan Adler-Wineman Family Collection

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Lot 24

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)

Baba Kama [on Torts and Civil Law]. With commentary of Rashi and Tosfoth. Edited by David ben Elazar Ha-Levi (Pizzighetone)

FIRST EDITION ff. 27 leaves (of 141). Dampsoiled. Three leaves from a smaller copy (with sizable loss). Thirteen leaves repaired affecting text. Penciled notes on margin indicating corresponding leaves in the post-Bomberg standard Talmud edition. Modern diced morocco. Folio Vinograd Soncino 31; Goff 100 (JTS only: a fragment of 3 leaves); Offenberg116; Tishby 67(JNUL copy: only a fragment of 9 leaves - the Mehlman copy); Goldstein 40 (listing only one copy in the British Isles - the present, Wineman copy); Steinschneider (suppl.) 487, 1526; Thes. A49; Wineman Cat. 24. Not in Cambridge University, British Museum, nor HUC. Offenberg lists only three recorded copies

Soncino: [Joshua Solmon ben Israel Nathan Soncino and / or Gershon ben Moshe Soncino.] (1489)

Est: $20,000 - $25,000

PRICE REALIZED $70,000

EXTREMELY RARE. ONLY THREE OTHER COPIES EXTANT (see above) Leaves corresponding to Perek Aleph, Daf 11b-19a; 3 leaves corresponding to Perek Gimel, Daf 33b-35; 11 leaves corresponding to Perek Daled-Heh, Daf 38a-45a and 46a-48a; 3 leaves corresponding to Perek Shevi’i, Daf 69a-71a. THE FRANKFORT A/ main STADT-UND UNIVERSITATSBIBLIOTHEK COPY containing 121 leaves is the only other fragment larger than the Wineman copy