Chochmath Mano’ach [glosses to the Talmud]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $2,000

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author

MANOACH HENDIL BEN SHEMARYA

printer

Jacob ben Gershom Bak

Place

Prague

Publication

1612

Description

FIRST EDITION. Published by the Author’s son. Title within four-part border. Large woodcut of King David with celestial figure on final page, numerous woodcut diagrams throughout text

references

Vinograd, Prague 214; Mehlman 843

summary

Includes annotations and corrections to all of the Talmud, and particularly to the Cracow edition of 1602-5. See C.B. Friedberg, History of Hebrew Typography in Poland (1932) pp. 21. Many of these glosses were incorporated into the standard Vilna Shas

ff.147. Lightly browned, trimmed, f. 146 slightly cropped, previous owners' signatures. Contemporary tooled vellum, rubbed. Sm. 4to

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