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MOSHE BEN NACHMAN (Ramba’n / Nachmanides).  Chidushei Bava Bathra [novellae to Talmud Tractate]. *  Appended: Dina DeGarmei. FIRST EDITION.  Divisional title. ff. 116. Final leaf laid down, portion of f. 113 supplied in facsimile, trace stained, few neat paper repairs, trimmed. Modern morocco. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 74. Venice, Daniel Bomberg, 1523. In the poem which serves as the preface to Dina DeGarmei (f.110), the Ramban praises his predecessors, the 'Sages of France' (i.e. the French Tosaphists). R. Shlomo Luria (Yam shel Shlomo, Tract. Bava Kama, introduction) would cite this poem as evidence of the great esteem in which the Ramba'n held the rabbis of France, whereas the Ramba'm had a certain disdain for them. See C.B. Chavel, Kithvei Ramban, Vol. I (1968) p. 417; EJ, Vol. XII, col. 780; Vol. VII, cols. 430-431. Israel Ta-Shema established that with the exception of the Ramban’s 1523 commentary to Bava Kama and the appended Dina DeGarmei, there did not appear in print any other work of the Ramban’s Talmudic interpretations for a further two centuries. The ramifications of this are significant, as Aschkenazic decisors such as R. Shabthai Cohen (Sha’Ch), were bereft of the major portion of the Ramban’s rabbinic scholarship. See I. M. Ta-Shema, Kiryath Sepher, Vol. L (1975) p. 327; and H. Soloveitchik, Printing and the History of Halakha, a Case Study, in: Bar-Ilan Annual, Vol. XXX-XXXI (2006) p. 319.