Masechta Baba Bathra.

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).

Gershom Soncino

Pesaro

(1510-11)

With commentaries by Rashi, Tosaphoth and Piskei Tosaphoth. Textural diagrams.

Vinograd, Pesaro 12; Rabbinovicz, Ma’amar al HaDepassath HaTalmud pp. 21-24; Heller, Printing the Talmud pp. 107, 119.

This Pesaro tractate has a number of distinguishing features that differ from standard editions. Whereas the standard edition contains ff. 176 (following Bomberg), this edition has a different pagination. The remark found on f. 29a in the standard edition: “Until here the commentary of Rashi -from here on the commentary of R. Samuel b. Meir (Rashbam) reads in this edition simply as: “Here Rashi died” (f. 26a). This is followed by a brief commentary quite unlike the lengthy comments of the Rashba’m. Rabbinovicz felt that this was so important, he reproduced its page to “publicize it to the world” (pp. 21-22 n. 19). The Rashbam’s commentary begins here much later (equivalent to f. 54b of the standard edition) and has many important textual variants (see Rabbinovicz p. 22). Another Pesaro Talmud Tractate in the possession of the Valmadonna Trust Library was exhibited in the Pierpont Morgan Library, see their catalogue: Hebraica from the Valmadonna Trust (1989) no. 17.