Physical Description

28 ff. folio 305:205 mm., wide margins, usual light age and damp staining. A very good copy bound in modern full leather over boards.

Detail Description

Tractate Keritot, order of Kodashim, with six chapters, deals with the transgressions for which the penalty is karet, meaning, sins punishable by premature or sudden death, or being cut off from the community of Israel, if done deliberately, and the type of sin-offering sacrifice that had to be offered to effect atonement if the transgression was committed in error

The printer, Isaac ben Aaron Prostitz, was born in Prossnitz, Moravia. At an early age his father sent him to Italy to learn the printing trade. Prostitz traveled through Italy and came to reside in Venice where he worked with Giovanni Grypho and met the famous proofreader, Samuel ben Isaac Boem. When the Grypho press closed in 1568, Isaac of Prostitz acquired the press' typographical equipment, including the letters, ornaments, and frames, and brought both the equipment and Boem to Cracow. 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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