Talmud Yerushalmi.

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: $3,000

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 four volumes. Three divisional titles. Printed in two columns with commentary occupying third column in rabbinic characters. Titles within architectural arch.

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, 83, 66, 51. Previous owners signatures on title and verso of final flyleaf in Ashkenazic hands including R. Shimshon ben R. Yissacher-Ber (Av Beth Din and Reish Mesivta of Schwerin) and Moshe, Dayan of Mezhritch. Marginal repair on title and some other leaves, lower edge of left corner of decoration and a few words of commentary in facsimile, marginal notes in a 17-18th century Ashkenazic hand, some staining and slight worming (mostly repaired). Modern marbled boards. Folio.

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