Auction 33 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Babylonian Talmud – Tractates Zevachim, Menachot Keritot and Me’ilah – Krakow, 1605

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Babylonian Talmud, with commentary of Rashi and Tosafot (including rulings of Tosafot). Tractates: Zevachim, Menachot, Keritot and Me’ilah. [In one volume]. Krakow, [1605]. Printing press of Yitzchak son of Aharon Ish Prostitz.
Separate title page for each tractate. Title page of tractate Menachot mentions composition of Beit Yosef by Rabbi Yosef Karo: “… after the divine spark illuminated us and we have merited the Chidushim of the Beit Yosef…”. Tractate Me’ilah includes tractates Kinim, Tamid and Midot.
For printing of this edition see: Rabbi Rabinowitz, article on printing of Talmud, Jerusalem 1952, pp. 80-84.
Ownership notations: “Yosef son of Avraham Nachmiash”, “dedicated to Bnei Eliezer Yeshiva”. Several corrections in Italian handwriting.
Zevachim: 120 leaves. Menachot: 112 leaves. Keritot: 28 leaves. Me’ilah: 28 leaves. 30 cm. Good-fair condition (majority of leaves in good condition). Stains. Mildew stains, wear and moth stains on some leaves. Restored tear on title page of tractate Zevachim and on following leaf.
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