Six Orders of the Mishnah – Commentaries and Additions by the Gaon of Vilna – Horodna and Vilna, 1818 – First ...

Six Orders of the Mishnah – Commentaries and Additions by the Gaon of Vilna – Horodna and Vilna, 1818 – First Edition with the Eliyahu Rabba Comments in the Margins
Six Orders of the Mishnah, with R. Ovadia of Bartenura, Tosafot Yom Tov, Tosafot Rishon LeTzion, novellae by R. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, and with commentaries and additions by the Gaon of Vilna. Horodna and Vilna, 1818. Title pages printed in red and black. Order Kodashim includes a plate showing the plan of the Temple, its contents, and the Temple Mount.
This edition of Mishnayot includes various additions and commentaries by the Gaon of Vilna. At the beginning of Order Zera'im, there is an explanation by the Gaon of Vilna of the Mishnah concerning a legume bed (bound in this copy in Order Moed as well). This is followed by omissions by the Gaon of Vilna on Order Zera'im, as well as novellae on Order Moed. At the end of the Nezikin volume, additions in the name of the Gaon of Vilna (the addition on the final leaf of the Nashim volume is lacking in this copy). The Taharot volume includes the Eliyahu Rabba commentary. In this edition, this commentary appears for the first time in the margins (and not as an independent composition).
Various stamps, inscriptions and signatures. In four volumes, censorship inscriptions and stamps, as well as stamps of a rabbi (in Russian). One inscription is dated December 1837 (at the time of the closure of Hebrew printing presses in Russia), and the other three mention the name of the censor: Meir Shapiro of Kovno (presumably the government-appointed rabbi of Kovno). The Kodashim volume bears the signature of R. Eliyahu Mordechai Eisenstein, outstanding Torah scholar and confidant of R. Shmuel Salant of Jerusalem.
Six volumes. Zera'im: [17], 132 leaves. Moed: [13], 172 leaves. [4] leaves with the biography of the Gaon of Vilna and explanation of the Mishnah concerning the legume bed at the end of order Zera'im were bound a second time at the beginning of the Moed volume. Nashim: [8], 152 leaves. Lacking leaves 153-159, [1] at the end of volume (altogether lacking 8 final leaves, mostly replaced in photocopy). Nezikin: [10], 196 leaves. Kodashim: [8], 2-157, [2], 159-163 leaves. Taharot: [7], 223, [14] leaves. Leaf [7], with rules of impurity from the book Eliyahu Rabba is not recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.
25-26 cm. Bluish paper. Condition varies. Most volumes in good condition. Stains and wear. Minor worming in various places. Moed volume in fair condition, with extensive worming to some leaves, affecting text. Marginal tears to some title pages, affecting borders, repaired. Tears in several other places, repaired in part. New, uniform bindings.
Vinograd, Thesaurus of the Books of the Vilna Gaon, no. 183.
Provenance: The Yeshayahu Vinograd Collection, Jerusalem.