Auction 100 – Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection
Sefer Maharil – Hanau, 1628 – First Edition with Additional Customs of Frankfurt am Main (Glosses of Rabbi Hirtz)
Opening: $600
Estimate: $800 - $1,000
Sold for: $2,125
Including buyer's premium
Sefer Maharil, customs of Ashkenazi communities, by R. Yaakov son of R. Moshe HaLevi Moelin. Hanau: [heirs of Johann Aubry], 1628.
Printed for the first time in this edition are "glosses and customs of Frankfurt… and new content added by R. Hirtz Levi who was Rabbi of Frankfurt". These glosses are named "Glosses of R. Hirtz" in the Machon Yerushalayim edition (see: R.Y.M. Peles, Introduction and Additions to the Books of the Maharil, Jerusalem, 2016, p. 285 [Hebrew]).
Ownership inscriptions on title page: "I, Yosef son of Aharon of Giez"; "Purchased by me, Eizik Ashkenazi". Another trimmed inscription on p. 63b: "This book was purchased by me, [so says Asher Yitzchak?] Eizik Ashkenazi".
64 leaves. Lacking [1] leaf at end. 15.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Small tears and open tears to first leaves, slightly affecting text, repaired with paper. Worming to title page and other leaves, affecting text, repaired with paper filling. Printing defect on p. 61b, affecting text. Stamps. New leather binding.
[1] leaf at end with index, which is lacking in the present copy, is also lacking from the digitized copies on the NLI and HebrewBooks.org websites.
CB, no. 5567,5; Zedner p. 305; Cowley, p. 300.
Early Printed Books – Poland, Prague and Western Europe
Early Printed Books – Poland, Prague and Western Europe