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Lot 65

Mishpetei Shevuot – Venice, 1602 – First Edition – Early Glosses

Mishpetei Shevuot and Sefer HaMekach VeHaMemkar, by R. Hai Gaon, with Shitah Chadashah LiBereshit Rabbah and Baraita DiMelechet HaMishkan. Venice: Daniel Zanetti, [1602]. First edition.


Many handwritten glosses in early Ashkenazic script (ca. the date of printing), by an unidentified writer. Most glosses written on Baraita DiMelechet HaMishkan.
Handwritten glosses (later) to endpapers and title page, relating to content of book.


55 leaves. 18.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear. Open tears to title page and several other leaves, affecting title frame, repaired with paper. Many handwritten notations to margins of leaves, and inside the text to some leaves. Stamps. Early leather and wood binding with remains of clasps, worn and damaged, partially disconnected (torn spine).


Provenance: Estate of Prof. Ephraim Elimelech Urbach.

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