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Shaarei Shevuot, attributed to R. Yitzchak son of Reuven of Barcelona. [Kraków: Isaac Prostitz, 1597].
This rare edition of Shaarei Shevuot is not listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book. A large format edition of the same work was printed concurrently, and was joined to the end of third volume of the Rif edition printed that year by Prostitz in Kraków.
The present copy does not have a title page (it is not known whether it was originally printed with a title page), and is identified by the colophon on the final leaf, which contains the place and year of printing.
Bound with (before Shaarei Shevuot): Ayelet Ahavim, by R. Shlomo di Oliveyra Rabbi of Amsterdam. Amsterdam: David de Castro Tartas, [1665]. First edition.
Shaarei Shevuot: 56 leaves. May be lacking title page. Ayelet Ahavim: 42 [i.e.: 32], [2] leaves. 14 cm. Good condition; several leaves in fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming. Tears. Open tears to several leaves of Shaarei Shevuot, with damage to text on four leaves, repaired in part with paper. Inscriptions. Old binding.
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Shulchan Aruch, with the glosses of the Rema, two parts – Even HaEzer and Choshen Mishpat. Krakow: sons of Isaac son of Aharon of Prostitz, 1619-[1620]. Two volumes.
Parts III and IV of the Shulchan Aruch edition printed in Krakow.
Ownership inscriptions (deleted) on title page of Even HaEzer.
Two volumes. Even HaEzer: [89] leaves. Choshen Mishpat: 186, [12] leaves. Misfoliation. 20 cm. Condition varies, fair to good-fair. Stains, including significant dampstains (traces of past dampness and mold stains to final leaves of vol. II). Wear. Worming, affecting text. Tears, including open tears to title page of vol. I, open tears affecting text to final leaves of vol. II, and tear to title page of vol. II. Bindings old and worn.
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Etz Shatul, Sefer HaIkkarim by R. Yosef Albo, with commentaries by R. Gedaliah son of Moshe [Lipschitz]. Venice: Giovanni Cajon, [1618]. First edition.
The author was a Polish Torah scholar. The book begins with approbations by the leading Torah scholars of the generation, including the Shelah, the Maharsha, the Maharam of Lublin, the Keli Yakar, the Tevuot Shor and others.
Ownership inscriptions on the title page. Several trimmed glosses.
146 leaves. 28 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains (large dark stains to final leaves). Wear. Worming, affecting text. Tears, including marginal open tears to title page and final leaves, affecting engraved title page border, repaired with paper. Open tear affecting text on one leaf. Censor's signature. Old binding.
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Rosh Amanah, principles of faith – Liber de Capite Fidei, by R. Yitzchak Abarbanel. Amsterdam: Guilielmus & Iohannes Blaev, 1638. Latin.
118, [9] pages. 19 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Several tears. Worming. Old binding.
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Collection of leaf fragments removed from a "bindings genizah" – from 16th century editions of the Babylonian Talmud.
• Three leaves from Tractate Kiddushin. Sabbioneta: Tobias Foa, 1553. • Eight leaves from Tractates Berachot, Eruvin and Sanhedrin. Probably from the edition printed by Justinian in Venice, 1546-1551.
11 leaves. Size varies. Various degrees of damage due to use in binding. Large open tears and extensive damage to all leaves, affecting text.
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Collection of leaves removed from a "bindings genizah" – leaves from Tractate Berachot. [Salonika, 1705].
Special edition for students, published by the Talmud Torah society in Salonika. The page layout is different from the regular layout which was introduced in the Venice edition of the Talmud.
11 leaves (mostly inconsecutive; text from folios 2-3, 11-13, 18-23 of the regular editions, including the first page of the tractate).
11 leaves. Approx. 30 cm (almost the original size). Various degrees of damage due to use in binding. Dark stains, open tears, worming and damage, affecting text, to all leaves.
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Disassembled book binding, with the leaves it contained – rare printed leaf fragments, including a leaf from an unknown Talmud edition:
• Leaf from tractate Berachot (end of chapter I and beginning of chapter II), from an unknown Talmud edition, presumably printed in Constantinople, ca. 1590. Leaf almost complete.
• Fragment from Tractate Shabbat. Venice: Bomberg, 1520.
• Leaves from Five Book of the Torah with commentaries, Constantinople 1522 edition.
• Leaf fragments from Akedat Yitzchak, presumably Salonika 1522 edition.
• Leaves from Arbaa Turim, Choshen Mishpat part, Constantinople 1540 edition.
• Two fragments from Tractate Chullin, Salonika 1566 edition.
• Leaves from the book Yefeh Toar, Venice 1597 edition.
• Other fragments (including leaf fragments from an unidentified manuscript).
The binding was made of early printed leaves pasted together with several manuscript leaves, and covered in leather. The present item includes the leaves and leather covering after careful disassembly.
Approx. 30 leaf fragments. Size and condition vary.
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Babylonian Talmud, set in twelve volumes, with commentaries. Berlin: Julius Sittenfeld, 1861-1868.
The text on p. 31a of Tractate Shabbat in this edition was tampered with during printing: the letter Heh was omitted from the word "yeshua" in the phrase "Tzipita liyeshua" (did you await salvation), reading instead "yeshu" (Jesus). Samuel Shraga Feigensohn, the Vilna activist and publisher, discovered the corruption and informed R. Nachman Avraham Goldberg, publisher of this edition, who promptly reprinted four thousand corrected copies of this leaf and sent them to the buyers of this edition (see Hebrew sidebar). In the present copy of Tractate Shabbat, the original, uncorrected version appears, with the textual corruption.
See Hebrew description for the year of printing of each tractate.
12 volumes. 38 cm. Dry and browned paper in some volumes. Overall good to good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear to some leaves. Open tears to several leaves, including title pages. Worming; one vol. with extensive worming. Several detached leaves. Old leather bindings, some damaged and lacking spine.
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Mishnayot, with the Rambam and Rabbi Ovadia of Bartenura commentaries – Six Orders of the Mishnah in one volume. Venice: Zanetto Zanetti, [1606].
Ownership inscription on a piece of paper pasted to front binding: "Shmuel Ambron". Ownership inscription on final leaf: "Belongs to Elia Mazal Tov Usigli". Several glosses.
84, [1], 85-206; 43, 45-46, 48-302 leaves. Lacking leaf 44 and leaf 47 of second sequence (misfoliation). Leaves 219-226 and 243-244 were bound out of sequence. Approx. 29 cm. Overall fair condition, some leaves are in good-fair condition. Stains, including severe dampstains. Wear and creases to edges. Tears, including open tears affecting text, repaired with paper. Worming to title page and other leaves, affecting title page border and text. Paper repairs to edges of title page, affecting its border. Two leaves detached. Leaves trimmed, affecting title page border, headings and text in some places. Early binding, damaged and torn, with extensive worming.
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Tractate Avot, with commentaries by Rashi and the Gaon of Vilna; Avot D'Rabbi Natan, and the minor tractates: Sofrim, Semachot, Kallah, Derech Eretz Raba, Derech Eretz Zuta and Perek HaShalom, corrected according to the text of the Gaon of Vilna. Shklow, [1804]. First edition.
The book was brought to print by the sons of the Gaon of Vilna, R. Yehuda Leib and R. Avraham, and compiled by his disciple, the Kabbalist R. Menachem Mendel of Shklow. The book begins with an important foreword by R. Menachem Mendel, in which he relays several extraordinary points that he heard from his teacher, the Gaon of Vilna.
Leaves 3-24: Tractate Avot, the Mishna occupying the center of the pages, flanked on one side by Rashi's commentary, and on the other by "the commentary of the Gaon, where one who studies earnestly will find many wonders, demonstrating how each teaching of the Mishna is derived from explicit verses". Leaves 25-50: Tractate Avot D'Rabbi Natan, based on the text and corrections of the Gaon of Vilna. The center of the page is occupied by the text corrected by the Gaon of Vilna, with the old, unedited version printed on the side, "so that one will be able to appreciate the difference between the two, like the distance from the East to the West, and the advantage of one over the other like light over darkness". Leaves 51-82: Minor Tractates in the same setup; the corrected text occupying the center of the page, with the previous version on the side.
82 leaves. 21.5 cm. Condition varies, good to good-fair. Stains. Dampstains. Worming to title page and to final leaves. Open tears, repaired with paper. Paper reinforcements to inner margins of the first two leaves. Without binding.
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Shenot Eliyahu, Mishnayot Order Zera'im, with commentaries by the Gaon of Vilna. Lviv, [1799]. First edition.
The commentary of the Gaon of Vilna is divided into two: the brief commentary and the lengthy commentary.
On the verso of the title page, approbations and warning by the Vilna Beit Din not to publish the teachings of the Gaon of Vilna without permission, and without first ascertaining that they are unquestionably the writings of the Gaon of Vilna.
Handwritten glosses (Ashkenazi square script).
[2], 9; 53, [2], 57-59 leaves. 33 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Worming affecting text. Small marginal open tear to title page; small tears to several other leaves. Leaves trimmed with damage to headings and text. Many stamps. Old binding. Back board detached.
Without leaf [3], the rare leaf with the foreword by R. Chaim of Volozhin, added to a few copies only.
Vinograd, Thesaurus of the Books of the Vilna Gaon, no. 177.
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Jerusalem Talmud (forged) – Order Kodashim, with the Cheshek Shlomo commentary, published by Shlomo Yehudah Friedlander. Part I: Zevachim and Arachin, Part II: Chullin and Bechorot. Szinérváralja (Seini), [1906]-1909.
The Jerusalem Talmud on Order Kodashim was lost during the time of the Rishonim and was never printed. In the early 20th century, one Shlomo Friedlander copied all the citations from the Jerusalem Talmud on Order Kodashim he found in the works of the Rishonim, skillfully combining them with passages from the other Orders of the Jerusalem Talmud, and claimed that he had discovered an ancient manuscript of the lost Jerusalem Talmud.
Friedlander's forgery was at first a great success. Many rabbis and researchers believed the work to be authentic, however others realized that the work was a forgery and publicized their findings. After the forgery was confirmed, most copies were buried.
Two volumes. Vol. I (Zevachim and Arachin): [8], 100 leaves. Vol. II (Chullin and Bechorot): [9], 78; [1], 47 leaves. Lacking general title page of vol. II. 34.5-35.5 cm. Dry, brittle paper. Overall good-fair condition. Stains. Tears, including tear to title page of vol. II, affecting text. Worming. Printing defect to one leaf of vol. I, with loss to a large part of text. Detached leaves in vol. I. Old bindings, damaged (front board of vol. I. detached; spine lacking). Stamps and bookplate of the writer Alter Druyanow in vol. I.
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