Talmud Yerushalmi

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $3,400

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

author

(TALMUD, JERUSALEM).

printer

(Isaac Prostitz)

Place

Cracow

Publication

(1609)

Description

Second Edition, First Edition with a Commentary. Four parts in one volume. Three divisional titles. First word in each Order within magnificent surround; letters of first word in each Tractate within inidividual historiated vignettes. Printed in two columns with commentary occupying third column in rabbinic characters

references

Vinograd, Cracow 289

summary

“This second edition of the Jerusalem Talmud became the standard for subsequent printings of the Yerushalmi.” See Yeshiva University Museum Catalogue, Printing the Talmud (2005), number 34

ff. 65 (Zera'im); 66 (Nashim); 51 (Nezikin and Tractate Niddah); 83 (Mo'ed). Orders of Talmud bound out of sequence. Previous owners’ marks, variously stained, some marginal wear, extreme upper portion of ttitle removed not affecting text, ff. 39-40 abraded with some loss. Mottled calf, skillfully rebound. Folio

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