Complete in six volumes

Estimate: $15,000–$20,000
Hammer price: $32,000

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(MISHNAH).

printer

Marco Antonio Giustiniani

Place

Venice

Publication

1546-7

Description

Including commentary by Moses Maimonides. Printer’s device on all six titles (Yaari, 16). Incipits floriated. In Vol. VI, f.163v., censors' inscriptions: "Revisus p[er] me Laurentiu[m] Franguellu[m], 1575"; "Revisto per mi Fra[te] Luigi da Bologna, Maggio 1599." (See Popper, pl. IV, nos. 5 and 1)

references

Vinograd, Venice 280; Mehlman 103; not in Adams

summary

Most uncommon edition. Practically all copies of Giustiniani’s Mishnah were destroyed by the Inquisition in 1553, pursuant to the Bull of Pope Paul IV that ordered all copies of the Talmud and related literature be consigned to flames. See M.J. Heller, The Printing of the Talmud (1992), pp. 217-28

Vol. I (Zera'im): ff. 4, 6, 86. Vol. II (Mo'ed): ff. 53. Vol. III (Nashim): ff. 44. Vol. IV (Nezikin): ff. 14, 12, 6, 7, 7, 24. Vol. V (Kodashim): ff. 7, 47 (f.33 wanting), (1). Vol. VI (Toharoth): ff. 6, 163. Light stains. Some leaves remargined, few leaves supplied from another copy. Modern morocco. Folio

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