Auction 70 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Hilchot Rav Alfas - Parts of Orders Nashim and Nezikin - Venice, 1552 - Early Handwritten Glosses

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Hilchot Rav Alfas, Order Nashim - Tractates Gittin, Kiddushin, with Tractate Chullin; and Order Nezikin - Tractates Bava Batra, Sanhedrin, Makkot, Shevuot and Avoda Zara, with Piskei Rav Mordechai and Tosefta. [Venice: Alvise Bragadin, 1552]. First edition with the additions of R. Yehoshua Boaz the Shiltei HaGiborim. Two volumes.
Early glosses from several writers in both volumes, some in Sephardic script and others in Italian script. Owner's signature (faded) within the decorative frame surrounding the initial word of Tractate Bava Batra, on the first leaf of the Nezikin volume: "Yosef David son of Yaakov Bassani" (a rabbi in Ferrara).
Two volumes. Vol. I, from Order Nashim: 554-778 leaves (originally: [1], 402-778, [1], 64-93 leaves. The present volume comprises Tractates Gittin, Kiddushin and Chullin, without the other tractates of Order Nashim, and without Sefer HaMaor and Milchamot Hashem usually printed at the end of the volume). Vol. II, from Order Nezikin: 155-383, 385-392; 20 leaves. Lacking leaf 384 (beginning of the Mordechai commentary. Originally: 392, 20 leaves. Without leaves 1-154, with the other tractates of Order Nezikin). 40.5-41.5 cm. High-quality paper. Fair condition. Stains and wear. Dampstains. Worming to inner margins of some leaves, and in other places. Large tears to several leaves in both volumes, some repaired with paper, affecting text with some loss. Most of leaf 297 in vol. II, lacking. Censor's deletions to several leaves, causing tears and loss of text due to ink erosion. Censor's signatures. Old bindings.
Stefansky Classics, no. 140.
Mishnayot, Talmud and Rav Alfas
Mishnayot, Talmud and Rav Alfas