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Bidding Information
Lot #    13451
Auction End Date    3/7/2006 10:09:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Talmud Bavli, Tractate Bekhorot
Title (Hebrew)    תלמוד בבלי, מסכת בכורות
City    Cracow
Publisher    Isaac b. Aaron of Prostitz
Publication Date    1603
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    69, [1 blank] ff., 315:217 mm., usual age staining, worming throughout affecting letters repaired, wide margins, bound in modern cloth over boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Tractate Bekhorot, fourth tractate in the Mishnah, in the order of Kodashim, dealing in nine chapters, with the laws relating to the firstborn, both of men and animals, and with allied subjects. A very rare tractate of the first Talmud edition of the Isaac b. Aaron of Prostitz (Prossnitz) printing press. Isaac who was trained in Italy and received a 50 years' licence from Sigismund II Augustus to set up a Hebrew press in 1569. He acquired his equipment from the Venetian printers Cavalli and Grypho and also brought with him from Italy the scholarly proofreader Samuel Boehm. In the next 60 years Isaac and his successors (sons and nephews) produced some 200 books, of which 73 were in Yiddish. The Babylonian Talmud was printed twice, this edition 1602–08 and again in 1616–20.
          
Reference
Description		    Vinograd, Cracow 268; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
17th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Talmud
  
Characteristic
Language:    hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica