Lot 190
Manuscript – Talmudic Novellae
Manuscript – novellae on various portions of the Talmud, novellae and copies of teachings by the Chatam Sofer. [Hungary], after 1820.
On leaf 6a: "And the veteran student R' Bezalel Breuer asked…" the idea which follows can be found in the novellae of the Chatam Sofer on Tractate Bava Metzia, leaves 61-62, where he writes this idea (in different words) in the name of his disciple Bezalel Breuer, a student who died at a young age in 1806. This is evidence that the notebook we are holding belonged to one of the Chatam Sofer's disciples, many of whom used to copy their master's teachings.
Leaf 6b: Citation of Rabbi Wolf Baskowitz, in the book Seder HaMishna. Rabbi Wolf died in 1918, and his book was published in 1920.
Writer's signatures: Mordechai Leib Greenwald, Mordechai Leib of Santov, Hungary. (This name is not mentioned in the book "The Chatam Sofer and his Disciples").
Additional owner's signatures: Shlomo Figel.
Inscription of owner's name in (Hungarian letters?): Max (Marcus) Greenwald. Samuel Shreiber Pressburg. He could possibly have been Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer, author of the Ktav Sofer – not certain. [Shreiber is Yiddish for Sofer – scribe, and Pressburg was the Ktav Sofer's city of origin.]
48 pages, 22.5 cm. Fair condition, green-grey paper, stained by time and wear. New colorful paper cover.
