Strack, Hermann L. (Ed.) Der Babylonische Talmud. Nach der Einzigen Vollständigen Handschrift München Codex Hebraicus 95 [facsimile of the Munich Codex]

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Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 182
(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).

Strack, Hermann L. (Ed.) Der Babylonische Talmud. Nach der Einzigen Vollständigen Handschrift München Codex Hebraicus 95 [facsimile of the Munich Codex]

Two large volumes. Printed on regal paper. Ex-library, list of names (female donors) inscribed on opening blank. Original boards, light wear. Heavy folio.

Leiden: 1912

Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Colossal fascsimile of the monumental Munich Codex, the earliest complete manuscript of the entire Babylonian Talmud. It is the only recorded manuscript of the Talmud to have survived the wide-spread destruction of books in 15th-century Spain and 16th-century Italy. Needless to say, the manuscript contains numerous and significant textual variants from the printed edition. It formed the basis of R.N.N. Rabinovicz’s important “Dikdukei Sofrim.”