TRAUMAN, ABRAHAM (KALISCH). Birkath Avraham [novellae on Tractates Chulin, Kiddushin, Gittin, and Sanhedrin]

AUCTION 41 | Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 1:00

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TRAUMAN, ABRAHAM (KALISCH). Birkath Avraham [novellae on Tractates Chulin, Kiddushin, Gittin, and Sanhedrin]

Autograph manuscript. Cursive Aschkenazic script. Double columns. On front board in Hebrew: "Zeh ha-sepher shayach la-adoni avi ha-rav ha-baki mo"h Avraham Troiman" [This book belongs to my father, the encyclopedic R. Abraham Trauman]. On front fly in German: "Abraham Kalisch" ff.125. Sepia ink on coarse paper. Occasional light stains. Ex-library. Contemporary boards. Folio

Eastern Europe: Early 19th-Century

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $3,500

In the introduction to his published work Chesed LeAvraham (Breslau, 1846) the author, Abraham Trauman, a native of Kalisch, Poland bemoans the fact that he lacks the wherewithal to publish his collected Talmudic novellae, entitled "Birkath Avraham." A century and a half later the manuscript yet awaits publication. On f. 19r. of Chesed LeAvraham, Trauman records a question he heard in his youth from the famous R. Yeshayah Pick. On f. 5v. Trauman records a conversation he had with the R. Meir Leibush Malbim regarding the latter's premier work Artzoth ha-Chaim (Breslau, 1837)