Masecheth Yoma [Laws of the Day of Atonement]. With commentaries by Rashi, Tosaphoth, Maimonides and Rabbeinu Asher

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).

Daniel Bomberg

Venice

1520

FIRST BOMBERG EDITION. On title and final blank page, inscriptions in Hebrew and Italian by several former owners: David Hakohen, Isaac Hanan, Moise Vita Sabbato Morpurgo, and Israel Rovigo (see below). A few Hebrew marginalia

Vinograd, Venice 24; Rabbinovicz, Talmud pp.35-42

Provenance: Isaac Hanan was the author of B’nei Yitzhak (Salonika, 1756), a collection of kabbbalistic homilies on the Pentateuch and halachic responsa. See JE, Vol. VI, p. 204; M. Benayahu, The Shabbatean Movement in Greece (1973), pp. 38-9, 61 (facsimile of autograph letter, signed). (The signature on the front fly tallies with that reproduced by Benayahu.) Moses Chaim Shabbatai Morpurgo (d.1751), son of the Rabbi-Physician Samson Morpurgo of Ancona (1681-1740), was an outstanding bibliophile and collector of Hebraica, whose correspondence with Turkish Jewish book dealers has provided a wealth of information concerning the printing and distribution of Hebrew books in Italy, the Netherlands and the Ottoman Empire through the eighteenth century. Morpurgo was not only a collector of books; it was he who published his deceased father’s collection of responsa, “Shemesh Tzedakah” (Venice, 1743). See M. Benayahu, “Letters of R. Moshe Hayim Morpurgo on Hebrew Books” in: Aresheth, Vol. I (1958), pp. 223-253; EJ, Vol. IV, col. 559; S. Simonsohn, History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua (1977), pp. 457-8. Israel Rovigo (d. 1790) was the Rabbi of Modena. See Simonsohn, pp. 458-9