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(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN). Strack, Hermann L. (Ed.) Der Babylonische Talmud. Nach der Einzigen Vollständigen Handschrift München Codex Hebraicus 95. Two large volumes. Printed on regal paper. New endpapers. Expansive blind-tooled calf. Elephant folio. Leiden, 1912. Colossal facsimile of the monumental Munich Codex, the earliest complete manuscript of the entire Babylonian Talmud. It is the only recorded manuscript of the Talmud to have survived the widespread destruction of books in both 15th-century Spain and 16th-century Italy. Needless to say, the manuscript contains numerous and significant textual variants from the present received version. It formed the basis of R.N.N. Rabinovicz’s important work ‘Dikdukei Sofrim.’