Auction 76
The Gaon of Vilna and his Disciples - Books and Manuscripts from the Yeshayahu Vinograd Collection
Feb 2, 2021
Israel
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
The auction has ended
|
LOT 31:
Mishnah With Commentaries and Additions by the Gaon of Vilna – Vilna and Horodna, 1832 – Four of Six Volumes
more...
|
|
|
Sold for: $420
Start price:
$
200
Auction house commission: 25%
VAT: 17% On commission only
Users from foreign countries may be exempted from tax payments, according to the relevant tax regulations
|
Mishnah With Commentaries and Additions by the Gaon of Vilna – Vilna and Horodna, 1832 – Four of Six Volumes
Incomplete set of Six Orders of the Mishnah (Orders Zera'im, Moed, Nashim and Taharot), with R. Ovadia of Bartenura, Tosafot Yom Tov, Tosafot Rishon LeTzion, novellae of R. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, glosses of R. Yeshaya Berlin, and with commentaries and additions by the Gaon of Vilna. Vilna and Horodna, 1832. Four volumes out of six.
Each volume has two title pages. Title pages printed in red and black.
Shenot Eliyahu was printed at the end of Order Zera'im, with a separate title page. Eliyahu Rabba was printed at the end of Order Taharot, with a separate title page. These two works were also published individually. The verso of the second title page of the Moed volume features novellae of the Gaon of Vilna on Orders Zera'im and Moed.
Three of the volumes (orders Zera'im, Nashim and Taharot – bound in original leather bindings), bear many signatures and ownership inscriptions: "Yisrael son of R. Eliyahu of Kalnai, near Leckava [north-Lithuania]"; "Nachum son of R. Aharon of Pikeliai… Courland"; "Belongs to R. Nachum Aharon"; stamps in Cyrillic characters, with a signature above it: "Shimon son of Yehuda Selman"; and stamps of "the new Be'er Sheva Beit Midrash in Beit Yisrael, Jerusalem".
Four volumes. Vol. I (Zera'im): [8], 132; [1], 35 leaves. Vol. II (Moed): [2], 172 leaves. Vol. III (Nashim): [2], 160 leaves. Vol. IV (Taharot): [2], 223, [1]; [1], 17, [2] leaves (final two leaves – novellae and comments on Orders Zera'im and Moed by R. Meshulam Zalman Ashkenazi Rabbi of Lublin; in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, these leaves are listed at the end of Order Nashim). Approx. 27 cm. Thick, high-quality paper. Wide margins. Overall good-fair condition. Vol. II in fair condition. Stains and wear. Worming, affecting text (significant worming to vol. II). Tears in several places. Stamps. Three volumes in original leather bindings, one volume in different binding. Wear, damage and worming to bindings.
Vinograd, Thesaurus of the Books of the Vilna Gaon, no. 185.
Provenance: The Yeshayahu Vinograd Collection, Jerusalem.
