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. Titles within architectural arch.

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. R. David Darshan was the author of the Perush Katzar to this edition, citing his name in the commentary to Tractate Nazir. Born in Cracow c. 1527 he was a 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. See H. R. Perelmuter, Shir Ha’Ma’aloth Le’David (1984); and S. Lieberman, Ha’Yerushalmi Ki’Peshuto (1935) introduction.