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Talmud Bavli, Tractate Avodah Zara |
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תלמוד בבלי, מסכת עבודה זרה |
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Cracow |
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Isaac b. Aaron of Prostitz |
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1605 |
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This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
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Physical
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78, 8, [1 marked 90] ff., 295:202 mm., usual age staining, wide margins, lacks several final ff. A good copy bound in modern cloth boards.
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Detailed
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A 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. |
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Reference
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Vinograd, Cracow 261 (98 ff.) |
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