(MISHNAH).

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

printer

Marco Antonio Giustiniani

Place

Venice

Publication

1546

Description

Including commentary by Moses Maimonides. Printer’s device on all five titles (Yaari no.16). The Salman Schocken copy

references

Vinograd, Venice 280; Mehlman 103; not in Adams

summary

Most uncommon edition. Practically all copies of this Mishnah were destroyed by the Inquisition in 1553 pursuant to the Bull of Pope Paul IV ordering all copies of the Talmud and related literature be consigned to flames. See M.J. Heller, The Printing of the Talmud (1992) pp.217-28

ff.433 (of 494). Lacking ff.1-14;1-12;1-22;1-7;1-6. Wormed and stained. Occassionally remargined without loss of text. Modern boards. Folio

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