Aruch Hakatzur [abridged dictionary of the Talmud]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

NATHAN BEN YECHIEL OF ROME

printer

Samuel ibn Nachmias

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1511

Description

FIRST EDITION. The Samuel Schoenblum-Mayer Sulzberger copy. Issued without a title-page

references

Vinograd, Const. 33; Yaari, Const. 16; Mehlman 1245; Adams N-58

summary

E. Deinard in his Atikoth Yehudah (p. 32) notes that many new words and definitions appear in this shortened edition that were not in the original unabridged version

ff. 63 (of 64). Lacking opening leaf (supplied in facsimile), following 3ff. remargined, few light stains, censor’s signatures (including Giovanni Dominico Carretto) at end, though almost entirely uncesored. 19th-century half-morocco over marbled boards. 4to

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