Tractate Horayoth. With Commentaries of Rash”i, Tosaphoth (from manuscript), and R. Samuel Edels (Maharsh”a)

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)

Moses Frankfurt

Amsterdam

1727

FIRST EDITION OF TOSAPHOTH HORAYOTH. Printer's device on title. Owner's inscription on title: “A gift from my brother-in-law, R. Elijah Akiva ben Elimelech of Lida…1819.” See N. Z. Friedmann, Otzar ha-Rabanim, p. 50, nos. 2304, 2322

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1300, R.N. Rabinowitz, Ma’amar Al Hadfasath HaTalmud p.118

The first printed edition of Tractate Horayoth with Tosaphoth's commentary. A rare edition, unseen by Vinograd (his listing based on Ben-Yaakov's somewhat cryptic description of the book). Slight but significant differences exist between this first edition of the Tosaphoth and the later, Vilna edition based upon it. For instance the remark that begins “tzarikh iyun” at the very onset of the tractate (s.v. bein she-asu ve-asah imahen) in the Vilna edition does not occur in the original version of the Tosaphoth, as evidenced in the present Amsterdam version