Collection of leaf fragments from the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Berachot, with Rashi and Tosafot. [Salonika: Matitya Batsheva (Basevi) and Sons, 1592].
Fragments of some 15 leaves of Tractate Berachot, from a "bindings genizah". The fragments correspond with the following Venice edition folios: 3-4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 31, 47, 53, 56-57, 59, 61-62.
Leaf fragments of varying sizes, repaired with paper, and bound together.
Two additional fragments enclosed (attached together): fragment of leaf 9 (equivalent of folio 6 in the Venice edition), and a fragment of another leaf (corresponding with folio 8 of the Venice edition).
The present Tractate Berachot is a rare edition, which was bibliographically unknown for many years. R. Moshe de Medina records his efforts to bring the Batsheva (Basevi) family of printers to Salonika and print a Talmud edition. Mehlman published a special appeal letter issued by R. Yehuda Aryeh of Modena, calling for support of the publication of a Talmud edition in Salonika. Mehlman notes however that no remnants of this edition were ever found. The present tractate was later discovered, though no other tractates printed by the Batsheva family are known.
[17] leaf fragments. Size and condition vary (various degrees of damage due to use in binding).
Provenance: Collection of the Valmadonna Trust Library.