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Rav Alfas, Part III – Venice, 1522 – Printed by Daniel Bomberg – First Edition of Tosefta and Second Edition of Rif – Ownership Inscriptions and Glosses

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Hilchot Rav Alfas (Rif), Part III, Seder Nezikin, with commentators, and with Tosefta. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1522.
Part III – Tractates Bava Kama, Bava Metzia, Bava Batra, Sanhedrin, Makot, Shevuot and Avodah Zarah.
First edition of Tosefta, printed after the Rif of each tractate respectively. This order has been retained in printed editions to the present.
Second complete edition of the Rif.
Ownership inscriptions and signatures on title page: "Asher Viterbo, Shimshon Viterbo", "Asher Viterbo" (apparently R. Asher son of Shimshon Viterbo, a Torah scholar of Pesaro); "Leon Viterbo di Pesaro" (in Latin characters); "Yosef son of R. Meir Chananel Nachman".
Signature on p. 71a (in Ashkenazic script): "Tzadok son of R. D. Brans[?] of Greater Dubno" (possibly R. Tzadok Marshelkovitz son of R. David Parnas, a leading member of Dubno who established a Beit Midrash called the Kloiz Beratz, d. 1838). Signature on p. 265a (in early Ashkenazic script): "Or Shraga Feivel Kahana".
Many glosses in Italian script on first leaves.
Censors' inscriptions on last and second-to-last leaf. Many censorship expurgations in Mordechai and Tosefta of Tractate Avodah Zarah.

392; 9, [1] leaves. 34.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including many dampstains and traces of former dampness with mold stains. Worming to title page and other leaves, affecting title page and text (partially repaired with paper filling). Marginal tears to several leaves. New leather binding, with defects.

Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Early Printed Books – 16th Century
Early Printed Books – 16th Century