Fascinating stuff. The Hutter Bible sounds really useful for people learning Hebrew.
That's right. It's amazing that (to my knowledge) no one ever attempted an edition similar to it.
...Rabbi Meir Eidelman. For most of us he is known as Mohel, talmid chochom and just fine person.
Not everyone knows that Rabbi Eidelman is author of two books on Chumash and Tanach. (I particularly like one on the Chumash with all roots of the words highlighted...
shorshe ha-pe*alim *veha-shemot. Brooklyn: M. Eidelman.
"It was a lot of fun to eavesdrop there, and to see the show-offs who tried to demonstrate that they could read it. You know who you are, people. You read it as well as a 5 year old reads Ashrei."
Ha! When I went, the guy I was with asked me if I could read it. I admitted I could only read it only one letter at a time, awkwardly.
Rabbi Eidelman also has a similar sefer on the first 4 books of Navi titled Imrei Madrich.
Very cool.
>Here is a title I was gratified to find
My eyes went to the Zohar ... and then I realized which book you meant. :)
http://headsupp.blogspot.com/200...t-
sothebys.html
Great stuff. I hadnt realized until now that the yiddish word for "translation" actually means "Deutsch". Thus, when my rebbi used to ask me for the taitsch-verter, he was really asking me to tanslate the chumash into German.
Any one make any bids yet?
No pictures of the Bomberg Shas opened to Sukkah 5a with the diagrams still waiting to be penciled in? I would have loved to do the honors!
There's still another post coming and it will have pictures of that Shas; but tell you the truth, the Bomberg Shas did not move me as it seemed to have done to so many others, and I think the reason is because I'd already seen one and marveled at it at the YU Museum exhibit almost four years ago.
http://onthemainline.blogspot.co...bit-at-
yum.html
I gotta admit, incunabula just don't awe me all that much. Once you've handled, turned the pages of, a Gutenberg Bible, almost anything else is an anticlimax. I took a class on the history of printing at Princeton, and they took us into the Scheide Library to see some of their treasures. Scheide's copy of the Gutenberg Bible is illuminated by the Master of the Playing Cards, beautifully.
Incunabula talmuds do, because of their rarity and having been burned, but who has more than a few sheets of this tractate and a half a sheet of that one?
And aside from the completeness of the Valmadonna Bomberg Talmud, the antiquity of them? You can go to virtually any Kestenbaum sale and handle and read from various masechtot of famous early Talmud printings. They're not just locked up in glass cases.
BTW, I think I have a better (flash-free) picture of that Lampronti poem, if you want it.
Thank you!!
i am quite certain the pahad yitshak is an autograph of the author.
That's what I thought, but it occurred to me that it is hard to think of him literally rewriting it all!--as opposed to hiring a copyist to incorporate his notes and revisions. That's why I wrote that I'm not sure if it is an autograph.
(BTW, if ever email me, please send to dbmin9 at aol dot com -- having recently checked another account that I use less, and seeing that you emailed me a couple of times, and I didn't know it.)
Brilliant presentation.
Grateful for sharing with others such a wonderful view of these fascinating works and interesting comments.
Many thanks.
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