Alfasi, Isaac. Hilchoth Rav Alphas - Seder Nezikin

AUCTION 37 | Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 59
(ELIJAH, GAON OF VILNA).

Alfasi, Isaac. Hilchoth Rav Alphas - Seder Nezikin

Title signed: “Avraham ben-Harav ha-Gaon." On f.223 marginal glosses ff. 223 (i.e.225). Wormed and waterstained. Lg. folio

Vienna: Joseph Hraschanzky 1804

Est: $8,000 - $10,000
Copy of R. Abraham, son of the Vilna Gaon. R. Abraham (1750-1808) son of R. Elijah, Gaon of Vilna (1720-1797), besides preserving teachings heard from his father, was a distinguished scholar in his own right. He is perhaps most famous for his bibliographic work “Rav Pe’alim” (1894). Recently, there have come to light his glosses to the Babylonian Talmud. See S. Gottesman, “Hagahoth u-bi’urim la-Shas le-R. Avraham ben ha-GRA,” Yeshurun, Vol. IV (1998), pp. 124-221; JE, Vol. I, pp.106-7.