Masechta Nazir. With commentaries by Rashi, Tosaphoth, etc

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)

Tzvi ben Abraham Klonymous Jaffe

Lublin

1619

Title with signatures of previous owners, including: Aaron b. Yaakov Kopel, Dayan of Leipnik, Shmuel Zanvil b. Aaron Ha-Kohen; Aaron b. Yitzchak of Leipnik (dated 1668); Mordecai b. Yaakov of Leipnik and others

Vinograd, Lublin 122; Mehlman 155:4; Rabinovitz, Talmud pp. 85-91

Rare. The Mehlman copy is incomplete. This third printing of the entire Talmud was begun in Lublin in 1617 and completed in 1639, with a handful of Tractates printed in Hanau. There is some question regarding the identity of the printer. Rabbinovicz (Ma’amar al hadpasath ha-Talmud, pp. 85-91) speculates that Tzvi was the son of the famous Lublin printer Kalonymous Jaffe and that Kalonymous took on the additional name Abraham at a time of illness.See M. Heller, Printing the Talmud (1992) pp. 345-58 (illustrated p. 349)