(MaHaRSh”A). Chidushim mi-Masecheth Yom Tov u-Masecheth Yevamoth ve’od [Novellae on Tractates Beizah and Yevamoth, etc.] Contains also novellae of R. Baruch of Mayence (author Sepher ha-Terumoth) to second chapter of Bava Bathra (on f.14v.)

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EDELS, SAMUEL ELIEZER

(MaHaRSh”A). Chidushim mi-Masecheth Yom Tov u-Masecheth Yevamoth ve’od [Novellae on Tractates Beizah and Yevamoth, etc.] Contains also novellae of R. Baruch of Mayence (author Sepher ha-Terumoth) to second chapter of Bava Bathra (on f.14v.)

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographic border. Text in Rashi script printed in double columns. Former owner's Hebrew signature on title: "[illegible] of Frankfort a/Main" ff.50. Browned. Wormholes on ff.32-41 expertly repaired, some loss of text. Contemporary vellum. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Basle189; Prijs, Basle 162; not in Adams

Basle: Konrad Waldkirch 1599

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $6,000

A native of Cracow, R. Samuel Edels (1555-1631) is unusually referred to by his mother-in-law Edel's name. A wealthy woman, she supported the scholar and his disciples for a period of twenty years (1585-1605). In 1625, Edels established an important yeshivah in Ostrog. See EJ, Vol. VI, cols. 363-4 The Maharsh”a’s supercommentary is indispensable to a proper understanding of Tosaphoth, the medieval French commentary to the Talmud. R. Abraham Isaiah Karelitz (author of Chazon Ish) was known to stress this as did R. Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk (according to family oral testimony)