Nidah [on menstruation]. With commentary of Rashi and Tosfoth. Edited by David ben Elazar Ha-Levi (Pizzighetone)

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

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Lot 27

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)

Nidah [on menstruation]. With commentary of Rashi and Tosfoth. Edited by David ben Elazar Ha-Levi (Pizzighetone)

FIRST EDITION ff. 60 (of 90). First leaf with artistic border in facsimile. Opening 11 and final 3 leaves repaired with loss of text. Some staining. Penciled notes on margin indicating corresponding leaves in the post-Bomberg standard Talmud edition. Modern morocco. Folio Vinograd Soncino 33; Goff 115; Goldstein 43; Tishby 71; Offenberg 131; Steinschneider p.264 no.180.1; Thes. A54; Wineman cat. 27. Not in Cambridge University; JNUL copy lacks two leaves

Soncino: Joshua Solmon ben Israel Nathan Soncino and / or Gershon ben Moshe Soncino 1489

Est: $30,000 - $40,000

PRICE REALIZED $70,000

The final Tractate of the Talmud. Contains the concluding formula and prayer upon finishing the study of a tractate - plus the Kaddish DeRabanan. It should be noted that this early edition contains a textual variaton from the standard version, an extra word in the phrase “ve-al kol man de-yatvin ve-askin be- oraitaha”- who sit and study the Torah)