Chidushei Chulin [novellae to Talmud Tractate Chulin]

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00

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Lot 158

SOLOMON IBN ADRET (RaSHB”A).

Chidushei Chulin [novellae to Talmud Tractate Chulin]

<<FIRST EDITION. >> Wide-margined copy ff. 134. Previous owner’s stamp on title, hole in upper margin of title, scattered marginalia in Sephardic hands, a few slight marginal wormholes in places, some staining. Later blind-tooled calf, edges rubbed. Sm. folio. Vinograd, Venice 77.

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1523

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,100

Barcelona native Solomon ibn Adret (c.1235-c.1310) was a disciple of the cousins R, Moses Nachmanides and R. Jonah b. Abraham of Gerona. Following the departure of Nachmanides for the Land of Israel in the year 1267, ibn Adret became the undisputed leader of Spanish Jewry.