Bidspirit auction | Divrei Neva. Amsterdam, [1688] First

Divrei Neva. Amsterdam, [1688] First edition — rare - Divrei Neva — novellae in pilpul on the Talmud, Rashi, and Tosafot, together with the work Pi Neva — Halakhic Novellae Amsterdam, 5448 [1688]. Printed by David de Castro Tartas. First edition — rare. An important and rare Interesting and fascinating ery interesting and fascinatingscholarly work by Rabbi Neḥemia Feivel Roshniz, among the Ashkenazic sages active in Amsterdam in the second half of the Fifteenth century . Divrei Neva contains novellae written in the pilpulic method on sugyot of the Babylonian Talmud, Rashi, and Tosafot, reflecting broad erudition and the sharp analytical style characteristic of the Ashkenazic yeshiva world of the period. The volume includes an additional work, Pi Neva, comprising halakhic novellae, printed with a separate title page, indicating its function as a complementary yet conceptually independent treatise. The book was printed in Amsterdam in the year 5448 [1688] at the press of David de Castro Tartas, one of the important Hebrew printers active in the city. This is the first and rare edition of the work. [3], 152, [1]; 10 leaves. Height: 20 cm. Separate title page for Pi Neva. Condition: very good. Light age staining. Attractive early vellum binding.