Masechta Nazir. With commentaries by Rashi, Tosaphoth, etc
AUCTION 36 |
Thursday, March 22nd,
2007 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books & Manuscripts
Lot 189
(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)
Masechta Nazir. With commentaries by Rashi, Tosaphoth, etc
Lublin: Tzvi ben Abraham Klonymous Jaffe 1619
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
PRICE REALIZED $5,000
Rare. The Mehlman copy is incomplete.
This third printing of the entire Talmud was begun in Lublin in 1617 and completed in 1639, with a handful of Tractates printed in Hanau.
There is some question regarding the identity of the printer. Rabbinovicz (Ma’amar al hadpasath ha-Talmud, pp. 85-91) speculates that Tzvi was the son of the famous Lublin printer Kalonymous Jaffe and that Kalonymous took on the additional name Abraham at a time of illness.See M. Heller, Printing the Talmud (1992) pp. 345-58 (illustrated p. 349)