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Bidding Information
Lot #    22592
Auction End Date    1/20/2009 10:43:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Pirkei Avot
Title (Hebrew)    פרקי אבות
Author    [Liturgy]
City    Mantua
Publisher    Eliezer Solomon of Italy
Publication Date    1777
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    32 ff., 164:119 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in recent half marbled paper over boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Avot with an Italian translation after each paragraph. Tractate Avot is an anthology of rabbinic maxims, and is the oldest compilation of ethical statements of the Mishnah. It is the only tractate without Halakhic (legal) content, but is composed solely of epigrams and moral teachings attributed to generations of sages.

Avot is the most popular in Talmudic literature. Since Gaonic times (seventh to eleventh centuries) it has been studied on each Sabbath following Passover till Rosh Hashanah. The text is included in the Siddur (daily prayer book), and has been published in numerous editions with many commentaries and translations.

Title: Traduzione [di]... Simon Calimani e Jacob saraval...
          
Paragraph 2    עברית ואיטלקית, משנה אחר משנה. פועלי הדפוס: יקותיאל בן יצחק קוציר ואבטליון בן יצחק אבוהב.
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0200395 (British Museum copy)
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Avot
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew, Italian
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica