Mishnah. Seder Nashim [Order of Women]. With commentary by Moses Maimonides

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Lot 195

(TALMUD).

Mishnah. Seder Nashim [Order of Women]. With commentary by Moses Maimonides

Printer’s mark on title (see Yaari, Hebrew Printers’ Marks 16). Initial words historiated. Scattered scholarly Hebrew marginalia. On final page, in a Yemenite hand, a lengthy entreaty that the Redemption arrive this coming year of 5369 [1608], signed “Zechariah ben Sa’adyah ben Jacob.” On title, also in Yemenite square characters, a prayer on behalf of a sick individual that he recover from his illness, dated “Rosh Chodesh Nisan, 5380 [1620]” ff.44. Title and ff.2-3 laid to size. Light stains. Modern calf. Folio Vinograd, Venice 280; Mehlman 103

Venice: Marco Antonio Giustiniani 1547

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $5,000

Most uncommon edition. Practically all copies of this Mishnah were destroyed pursuant to the Bull of Pope Paul IV ordering the Talmud and related literature be consigned to flames. See M.J. Heller, The Printing of the Talmud (1992) pp.217-28