Minchath Oni [novellae to the Talmud]. Including indices.

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SINZHEIM, JOSEPH DAVID BEN ISAAC.

Minchath Oni [novellae to the Talmud]. Including indices.

<<Autograph>> Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper. Many volumes signed and/or dated. <<All unpublished.>> Five volumes. <<* Vol. 1:>> Novellae on Talmudic sugyoth. ff. (179, original pagination: 6-184). <<* Vol. 2:>> Novellae on Talmudic sugyoth. ff. (1), (140). <<* Vol. 3:>> Novellae on Talmudic sugyoth. ff. (1), (151). <<* Vol. 4:>> Novellae on Talmudic sugyoth. ff. (1), (145). <<* Vol. 5:>> Novellae on Talmudic sugyoth. ff. (1-65). <<* With:>> Auerbach, Tzvi Binyamin (1808-71). Novellae on Mishnah Order Moed. ff. 66-97. Lightly stained in places, institutional markings. All (but one) bound in contemporary boards, rubbed spines split; one vol. in modern boards. 4to.

Paris: circa 1810-12

Est: $70,000 - $100,000

The author states here he gave his work the title Minchath Oni (“The Poor Man’s Offering”) because he had composed it during “abnormal times” when he had been away from his home and his library on communal business and had been unable to immerse himself in his studies as deeply as he would have wished. See Y. Avivi, Rabbinic Manuscripts [in the] Mendel Gottesman Library, Yeshiva University (New York, 1998) nos. 100, 101, 102, 103, 104. <<None of these five manuscript volumes have been published to date.>>