Strack, Hermann L. (Ed.) Der Babylonische Talmud. Nach der Einzigen Vollständigen Handschrift München Codex Hebraicus 95.

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $700

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author

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).

Place

Leiden

Publication

1912

Description

Two large volumes. Printed on regal paper.

summary

Colossal facsimile of the monumental Munich Codex, the earliest complete manuscript of the entire Babylonian Talmud. It is the only recorded manuscript of the Talmud to have survived the wide-spread destruction of books in both 15th-century Spain and 16th-century Italy. Needless to say, the manuscript contains numerous and significant textual variants from the present received version; it formed the basis of R.N.N. Rabinovicz’s important Dikdukei Sofrim.

Ex-library, list of names (female donors) inscribed on opening blank. Original boards, light wear. Heavy folio.

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