Complete in six volumes

AUCTION 44 | Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 1:00

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

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Lot 200

(MISHNAH).

Complete in six volumes

Including commentary by Moses Maimonides. Printer’s device on all six titles (Yaari, 16). Incipits floriated. In Vol. VI, f.163v., censors' inscriptions: "Revisus p[er] me Laurentiu[m] Franguellu[m], 1575"; "Revisto per mi Fra[te] Luigi da Bologna, Maggio 1599." (See Popper, pl. IV, nos. 5 and 1) Vol. I (Zera'im): ff. 4, 6, 86. Vol. II (Mo'ed): ff. 53. Vol. III (Nashim): ff. 44. Vol. IV (Nezikin): ff. 14, 12, 6, 7, 7, 24. Vol. V (Kodashim): ff. 7, 47 (f.33 wanting), (1). Vol. VI (Toharoth): ff. 6, 163. Light stains. Some leaves remargined, few leaves supplied from another copy. Modern morocco. Folio Vinograd, Venice 280; Mehlman 103; not in Adams

Venice: Marco Antonio Giustiniani 1546-7

Est: $15,000 - $20,000

PRICE REALIZED $32,000

Most uncommon edition. Practically all copies of Giustiniani’s Mishnah were destroyed by the Inquisition in 1553, pursuant to the Bull of Pope Paul IV that ordered all copies of the Talmud and related literature be consigned to flames. See M.J. Heller, The Printing of the Talmud (1992), pp. 217-28