(MISHNAH)

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $1,900

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printer

(Isaac Prostitz)

Place

Cracow

Publication

(1576)

Description

Pirkei Avoth [Ethics of the Fathers]. With commentary “Minchah Chadashah” by Jechiel Michel Maraptchik, compiled from commentaries including Rashi, Maimonides, Ovadiah Bartenura, Don Isaac Abrabanel, Moses Almosnino, Beith Lechem Yehudah, Lev Avoth, et al.

references

Vinograd, Cracow 40; Mehlman 134

summary

The First Commentary on Ethics of the Fathers by an East European Scholar Y. Y. Cohen attests to the scarcity of this work in his bibliography of commentaries and translations of Ethics of the Fathers. See Masecheth Avoth - Peirusheha ve-Targumeha be-Aspaklariyath ha-Doroth, in Kiryath Sepher, Vol. 40 (1964-5), pp.104-117, no.14. Provenance: Christie’s, Hebrew Printed Books: Duplicates from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, 22nd May 1986, Lot 84.

ff. 84. Ex-library. Lightly browned, stained in places. Contemporary vellum-backed wooden boards. Sm. 4to

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