Masechta Ta’anith [“Fasts”]

Estimate: $6,000–$8,000
Hammer price: $6,000

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

author

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).

printer

Gershom Soncino

Place

(Pesaro

Publication

1515)

Description

With commentary by Rashi and Tosaphoth. Uncensored copy

references

Vinograd, Pesaro 41; Mehlman 142(ii); Rabbinovicz pp.24-5

summary

First Edition of this Talmudic Tractate. Accompanied by a Typed Letter Signed to a former owner from the Department of Oriental Books of the Bodleian Library, Oxford: “...The Bodleian Library does not hold copy of the Pesaro...edition of Ta’anit. Strangely enough, I have not traced a copy in any of the published catalogues of the Libraries which hold significant stocks of Hebraica. Your copy, even though lacking the title-page, is therefore of some rarity.”

ff.36 (of 40), lacking title, f.2 and final ff.2 (Piskei Tosaphoth). Stained, marginal wear, loss to head-notes of final ff.2. Modern half vellum. Folio

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