Auction 41 · Lot 231

Seder Nezikin including Pirkei Avoth. With commentary by Moses Maimonides (RaMBa”M). Translated from Arabic to Hebrew by Shlomo ben Yosi ben Yaakov in 1298 in Saragossa, the Kingdom of Aragon

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $5,000

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author

(MISHNAH).

printer

Joshua Solomon ben Israel Nathan Soncino and Joseph ibn Peso

Place

Naples

Publication

1492

Description

Text in two columns in square type, commentary in rabbinic type

references

Vinograd, Naples 24; Mehlman 11; Goff 82; Goldstein 47; Offenberg 92; Thesaurus A73; Wineman Cat. 44

summary

Seder Nezikin, of the first complete printed edition of the Mishnah. The Naples Edition of the Mishnah, the basic text of Rabbinic tradition, is the only incunable edition of the Mishnah to survive in its entirety. Fragments—no more than a few leaves—of an earlier Spanish edition are the only surviving printed version that predate this Naples edition. Accumulating nine years of skill and experience, Joshua Solomon Soncino created a production which bibliographers consider to be one of the most attractive of Hebrew incunables. Regarding typographical variants of this edition see A. Yaari, Iyunim be-Incunabulim Ivri’im, in: Kiryath Sepher, Vol. XXIV (1948) pp.157-9. See also Amram, pp. 63-69; J. Bloch, Hebrew Printing in Naples, inter alia

ff. 63 (of 356). Complete text of Nezikin (except for introduction of translator). Stained and marginal worming, many leaves remargined, final leaf laid down, taped repairs in places. Ex-library. Modern boards. Folio. Sold not subject to return

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