Yad Dovid [novellae to the Talmud].

Chief Rabbi of Strasbourg, Joseph David Sinzheim (1745-1812) was the senior and most learned member of the Assembly of Notables convened by Napoleon in 1806. Thereafter, Sinzheim was appointed president (Nasi) of the famed Grand Sanhedrin of Paris, a testament to his eminence as a Halachic authority - recognized as such even by Napoleon himself. The author wrote an extensive commentary on almost all of the Talmud, often citing a great many unpublished and today, quite unknown commentaries. His volume on Tractate Berachoth and portions of Seder Moed was published in Offenbach in 1799, however the majority of Sintzheim’s oeuvre remained unpublished for almost two centuries. In 1974 Machon Yerushalayim began to publish Sinzheim’s novellae to various Talmud Orders - but not all. In the present lot volumes 5 and 6 (partial), remain unpublished. See Y. Avivi, Rabbinic Manuscripts [in the] Mendel Gottesman Library, Yeshiva University (New York, 1998) nos. 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98. <<Two of these manuscript volumes have not been published to date.>>