Baba Metzia. With commentary of Rashi and Tosfoth

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 25

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)

Baba Metzia. With commentary of Rashi and Tosfoth

FIRST EDITION ff. 3 (of 154) with text from the third chapter Ha-Mafkid; these three leaves not in the JTSA copy which lacks ff.1-57. Some staining. Marginal edges frayed not affecting text. Modern cloth. Folio Vinograd Soncino 30; Goff 101; Tishby 68 (JNUL only a fragment of 16 leaves); Offenberg 117; Thes. A50; Steinschneider (suppl.) 487, 1539; Goldstein 41 (listing only one copy in the British Isles - the present, Wineman copy); Wineman Cat. 25. Not in Cambridge University, British Museum nor HUC

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

Est: $10,000 - $15,000

PRICE REALIZED $70,000

EXTREMELY RARE Offenberg lists only two recorded copies. Yudlov notes (Ginzei Yisrael 15) there is no complete copy exant (“lo nishtamer otek shalem.”)