Masecheth Bava Bathra [Laws of Ownership, Inheritance, etc.] With commentaries by Rashi, Tosaphoth, Maimonides and Rabbeinu Asher

AUCTION 36 | Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 1:00

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Lot 187

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).

Masecheth Bava Bathra [Laws of Ownership, Inheritance, etc.] With commentaries by Rashi, Tosaphoth, Maimonides and Rabbeinu Asher

FIRST BOMBERG EDITION. On f.62r. two diagrams drawn by hand (see below) ff. 609 (i.e. 217). Title supplied in facsimile. ff. 75-76, 77-78 bound out of sequence. Slight worming, some wormholes expertly repaired. On f. 196v. two lines stricken by Church censor. Recent morocco with florets. Folio Vinograd, Venice 36

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1521

Est: $30,000 - $40,000

PRICE REALIZED $30,000

In the Bomberg edition, as in other early editions of the Talmud, blank spaces were left where diagrams were to be placed within the texts of Talmud, Rashi or Tosaphoth. (The one exception to the rule is the diagram in Rashi, Sotah 43a). Occasionally, these diagrams would subsequently be supplied by hand. We have in our copy such an example on f.62r. (See Ma’amar al hadpasath ha-Talmud, p. 41)