Talmud Yerushalmi

AUCTION 43 | Thursday, April 02nd, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 223

(TALMUD, JERUSALEM).

Talmud Yerushalmi

Second edition, First Edition with a Commentary. Four parts in four volumes. Three divisional titles. Printed in two columns with commentary occupying third column in rabbinic characters. Titles within architectural arch ff. 65, 83, 66, 51. Previous owners signatures on title and verso of final flyleaf in Ashkenazic hands including R. Shimshon ben R.Yissacher-Ber (Av Beth Din and Reish Mesivta of Schwerin) and Moshe, Dayan of Mezhritch. Marginal repair on title and some other leaves, lower edge of left corner of decoration and a few words of commentary in facsimile, marginal notes in a 17-18th century Ashkenazic hand, some staining and slight worming (mostly repaired). Modern marbled boards. Folio Vinograd, Cracow 289

Cracow: (Isaac Prostitz) (1609)

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

Prof. Saul Lieberman has identified David Darshan as the author of the Perush Katzar to this edition, citing his name in the commentary to Tractate Nazir. R. David Darshan, born in Cracow c.1527, author of Shir Ha’Ma’aloth Le’David (Cracow, 1571) and Kethav Hithatzluth Le’Darshanim (Lublin, 1574), was a prominent disciple of Moses Isserles (the ReM”A), Solomon Luria (the MaHaRSHa”L), Isaac b. Bezalel, the brother of the MaHaRa”L of Prague, and others. For a full biography and translation of his works, see H. R. Perelmuter, Shir Ha’Ma’aloth Le’David (1984); and S. Lieberman, Ha’Yerushalmi Ki’Peshuto (1935), introduction. “This second edition of the Jerusalem Talmud became the standard for subsequent printings of the Yerushalmi.” See Yeshiva University Museum Catalogue, Printing the Talmud (2005) number 34