Talmud Yerushalmi.

(TALMUD, JERUSALEM).

(Isaac Prostitz

Cracow

1609)

Second edition, First Edition with a Commentary. Four parts in one volume. Three divisional titles. Printed in two columns with commentary occupying third column in rabbinic characters. Previous owners’ signatures and stamps on title and other leaves in Ashkenazic hands including: An inscription noting the volume belonged to R. Naphtali Hertz of Pintshov; signature and stamp of R. Chaim Meshulam Kaufman of Gosteninin (author of Pethach Ha’Ohel); a further marginal note in a 17th century Ashkenazic hand on f. 6a.

Vinograd, Cracow 289.

“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. The previous owner, R. Naphtali Hertz, Rabbi of Pintshov (Otzar Harabanim no. 16234) was the son of R. Aryeh Leib of Pintshov (Otzar Harabanim no. 3389a), a brother-in-law of R. Nathan Nata Eybeschuetz (Otzar Harabanim no. 16412) and thus the uncle of the celebrated R. Jonathan Eybeschuetz.