Auction 29 · Lot 62

Talmud Yerushalmi

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: $6,000

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

author

(TALMUD, JERUSALEM).

printer

(Isaac Prostitz)

Place

Cracow

Publication

(1609)

Description

First Edition with a Commentary. Four parts in one. Three divisional titles. Printed in two columns with commentary occupying third column in rabbinic characters. Titles within architectural arch

references

Vinograd, Cracow 289

summary

Prof. Saul Lieberman has identified David Darshan as the author of the Perush Katzar to this edition, citing his name in the commentary to Tractate Nazir. R. David Darshan, born in Cracow c.1527, author of Shir Ha’Ma’aloth Le’David (Cracow, 1571) and Kethav Hithatzluth Le’Darshanim (Lublin, 1574), was a prominent disciple of Moses Isserles (the ReM”A), Solomon Luria (the MaHaRSHa”L), Isaac b. Bezalel, the brother of the MaHaRa”L of Prague, and others. For a full biography and translation of his works, see H. R. Perelmuter, Shir Ha’Ma’aloth Le’David (1984); and S. Lieberman, Ha’yerushalmi Ki’peshuto (1935), introduction

ff.65, 83, 66, 51. Owners inscription in a Sephardic hand on final leaf, slight marginal repair to title, some staining and slight margiinal fraying of final leaves, otherwise a generally clean copy. Old calf, rubbed. Folio

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