Tractate Sanhedrin.
AUCTION 68 |
Thursday, April 07th,
2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art
Lot 214
(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN & JERUSALEM).
Tractate Sanhedrin.
Orient: 10th-11th century
Est: $20,000 - $25,000
PRICE REALIZED $20,000
<<ONE OF THE EARLIEST EXTANT TALMUD MANUSCRIPTS WITH CONSIDERABLE TEXTUAL VARIANTS FROM THE PRINTED EDITIONS.
>> This fragment was recovered from a later binding. It is interesting to note that both the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds are represented here, seemingly indicating that the text of both were written at the same time and studied simultaneously. See A. S. Scheiber, Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts as Binding Boards in the Libraries and Archives of Hungary in: The Joshua Bloch Memorial Volume (1960) pp. 19-28; Mauro Perani, Fragments from the Italian Genizah: An Exhibition (Bologna 2000).
<<Provenance:>>
Sotheby Parke Bernet, The Collection of David Solomon Sassoon, 12th May, 1981, lot 35.
Sotheby’s, Property from the Silberstein-Boesky Foundation, 3rd December, 2004, lot 2.