Auction 72 - Rare and Important Items
Kreiti UPleiti – Vienna, 1819 – Signatures of Rabbi Shmuel Strashun, the Rashash of Vilna, and a Gloss in His Handwriting
Opening: $3,000
Estimate: $5,000 - $10,000
Sold for: $6,875
Including buyer's premium
Kreiti UPleiti, commentary to Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah, by R. Yehonatan Eybeschutz. Vienna, 1819.
Copy of R. Shmuel Strashun of Vilna, author of Hagahot HaRashash, with his signatures and a gloss in his handwriting.
The signature " Shmuel Strashun" appears at the top of the title page. The endpapers bear ownership inscriptions and signatures of R. Shmuel and others, including: "… Shmuel son of R. Yosef Strashun ---"; "Shmuel HaKatan"; "Yosef Strashun"; "Avraham"; "Avraham David", and more. At the top of the flyleaf is a long gloss handwritten by the Rashash, commenting on the words of the Pleiti in Chapter 13 (this gloss was printed in the Zichron Aharon edition of Kreiti UPleiti, Jerusalem, 2006, p. 54, in the name of "the Rashash in his manuscript"). Two scholarly glosses, in a different handwriting, appear on p. 195b.
R. Shmuel Strashun – the Rashash (1793-1872) was a leading Vilna Torah scholar. Disciple of R. Avraham Danzig, author of Chayei Adam. Son of R. Yosef of Zaskevich and son-in-law of the wealthy R. David from the village of Strashun, who moved with his family to Vilna and became one of the leaders of the Vilna community. His glosses on the Talmud were printed in the Vilna editions of the Talmud under the title Hagahot HaRashash, and they cover the entire Talmud (with the exception of only 8 pages – Gedolei HaDorot, II, p. 683). Hagahot HaRashash is a classic work on the Talmud, widely discussed in the books of the Achronim and in discourses of yeshiva deans. His glosses to the Mishnah, Midrash Raba and the Rambam were also printed. His son was the well-known Torah scholar and bibliophile R. Matityahu Strashun of Vilna whose private collection of books and manuscripts formed the basis for the Strashun Library of Vilna (this book bears a stamp of the library).
[2], 200 leaves. 32 cm. Greenish paper. Good condition. Stains and wear. Stamps. New, elegant leather binding.
Copy of R. Shmuel Strashun of Vilna, author of Hagahot HaRashash, with his signatures and a gloss in his handwriting.
The signature " Shmuel Strashun" appears at the top of the title page. The endpapers bear ownership inscriptions and signatures of R. Shmuel and others, including: "… Shmuel son of R. Yosef Strashun ---"; "Shmuel HaKatan"; "Yosef Strashun"; "Avraham"; "Avraham David", and more. At the top of the flyleaf is a long gloss handwritten by the Rashash, commenting on the words of the Pleiti in Chapter 13 (this gloss was printed in the Zichron Aharon edition of Kreiti UPleiti, Jerusalem, 2006, p. 54, in the name of "the Rashash in his manuscript"). Two scholarly glosses, in a different handwriting, appear on p. 195b.
R. Shmuel Strashun – the Rashash (1793-1872) was a leading Vilna Torah scholar. Disciple of R. Avraham Danzig, author of Chayei Adam. Son of R. Yosef of Zaskevich and son-in-law of the wealthy R. David from the village of Strashun, who moved with his family to Vilna and became one of the leaders of the Vilna community. His glosses on the Talmud were printed in the Vilna editions of the Talmud under the title Hagahot HaRashash, and they cover the entire Talmud (with the exception of only 8 pages – Gedolei HaDorot, II, p. 683). Hagahot HaRashash is a classic work on the Talmud, widely discussed in the books of the Achronim and in discourses of yeshiva deans. His glosses to the Mishnah, Midrash Raba and the Rambam were also printed. His son was the well-known Torah scholar and bibliophile R. Matityahu Strashun of Vilna whose private collection of books and manuscripts formed the basis for the Strashun Library of Vilna (this book bears a stamp of the library).
[2], 200 leaves. 32 cm. Greenish paper. Good condition. Stains and wear. Stamps. New, elegant leather binding.
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