Auction 11 · Lot 152

Talmud Yerushalmi

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $2,500

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

author

(TALMUD, JERUSALEM).

printer

(Isaac Prostitz)

Place

Cracow

Publication

(1609)

Description

Second edition, First Edition With a Commentary. Four parts in one. Three divisional titles. Printed in two columns with commtary occupying third column in rabbinic characters. Titles within architectural arch

references

Vinograd, Cracow 289

summary

Prof. Saul Lieberman has identified David Darshan as the author of the Perush Katzar to this edition, citing his name in the commentary to Tractate Nazir. R. David Darshan, born in Cracow c.1527, author of Shir Ha’Ma’aloth Le’David (Cracow, 1571) and Kethav Hithatzluth Le’Darshanim (Lublin, 1574), was one of the most prominent disciples of Moses Isserles (the ReM”A), Solomon Luria (the MaHaRSHa”L), Isaac b. Bezalel, the brother of the MaHaRa”L of Prague, and others. For a full biography and translation of his works, see H. R. Perelmuter, Shir Ha’Ma’aloth Le’David (1984); and S. Lieberman, Ha’yerushalmi Ki’peshuto (1935), introduction. The first edition of the Yerushalmi (Venice, 1523) was sold by Kestenbaum & Company, 28th March 2000, Lot 333

ff.83,66, 51,65 (although opening three leaves supplied from another, later edition). Apparantly lacking main title. Worn and stained. Loose in later boards, scuffed. Folio. Sold not subject to return

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