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Lot #		4166
Auction End Date		4/1/2003 11:36:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)

Title Information

Title (English)

Talmud Bavli, Tractate Sabbath

Title (Hebrew)

תלמוד בבלי, מסכת שבת

City

Constantinople

Publisher

Joseph Jabez

Publication Date

1584

Collection Information

Independent Item

This listing is an independent item not part of any collection

Description Information

Physical
Description

188, 12 f., folio, 320:215 mm., title, f. 1-2, 74-75, 82-83, 88, 97-99, 181, final are provided in facimile, usual age staining, several f. with repairs affecting text. Bound in modern half leather boards.

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Very rare tractate of a rare Talmud edition! The few known copies are generally incomplete.

Detailed
Description

The tractate with several commentaries.

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JABEZ, 16th-century family of scholars and Hebrew printers of Spanish origin. SOLOMON (d. before 1593) and JOSEPH JABEZ set up a Hebrew press in Salonika in 1546. They were the sons of ISAAC JABEZ (d. before 1555) and grandsons of JOSEPH JABEZ, called "the preacher." In 1494 in Mantua Joseph, the grandfather, wrote a homiletical work, Hasdei ha-Shem, which his son Isaac prepared for publication. An edition of Psalms with his commentary was published by his grandson Joseph in Salonika in 1571. From 1546 to 1551 Solomon and Joseph printed a number of Hebrew books there. After a short interval in Adrianople, where they printed two books (1554–55), Solomon went to Constantinople and Joseph returned to Salonika, where he was an active printer until about 1570. A plan to print the Talmud, which had been burned and banned in Italy in 1553, was not fulfilled beyond a few tractates (1561–67). Meanwhile Solomon had begun printing in Constantinople in 1559, and his brother Joseph rejoined him there in 1570. Alone or together they printed about 40 important works, among them responsa by Elijah Mizrahi (1559–61) and Joseph ibn Lev (3 parts, 1560?–73), the first editions of Saadiah's Emunot ve-De'ot (1562), and A. Zacuto's Yuhasin (1566). The brothers then made a new effort to reissue the Talmud; the larger part of it appeared 1583–93. Solomon's son ISAAC JABEZ was the author of Hasdei Avot (Constantinople, 1583), a commentary on Avot, Yafik Razon (Belvedere, 1593), a commentary on haftarot, and Torat Hesed (Belvedere, after 1593), on Hagiographa; he was not a printer. The Jabez press in Constantinople was financed by patrons such as Solomon Abenaes. Hayyim Halicz worked at the press in about 1568.

Reference
Description

Vinograd, Constantinople 284; Enc. Jud.

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