Jerusalem Talmud - Kraków, 1609 - Thousands of Handwritten Glosses

Jerusalem Talmud - Kraków, 1609 - Thousands of Handwritten Glosses
Jerusalem Talmud. All four parts in one volume. With Perush (commentary) by R. David Darshan son of R. Menashe. [Kraków: Isaac son of Aaron Prostitz, 1609]. Second edition of the Jerusalem Talmud, printed based on the Venice (1523-1524) edition. In this edition, a brief commentary, authored by R. David Darshan of Kraków, was inserted in the margins. Thousands of handwritten glosses and notes, in closely written Ashkenazic script (typical of the mid-19th century): textual corrections, references, commentaries (in several instances, difficult words which the commentators did not explain, are compared to similar words in ancient Greek, including the spelling of the words in Greek characters). In tractate Pe'ah (p. 18a) and tractate Demai (p. 23a), the writer mentions "the text of R. E.V. in his glosses to the Babylonian" (R. E.V = R. Eliyahu Vilner - the glosses of the Gaon of Vilna on the Talmud and on Mishayot Zera'im, first printed in part and with errors in the Vienna 1806 edition of the Talmud, by the printer Anton Schmidt, who purchased a copy of these glosses and the rights to print them from the heirs of the Vilna Gaon). The thousands of glosses were presumably authored by an outstanding Torah scholar, who was deeply engaged in the study of the Jerusalem Talmud (the writer may have been a member of the study hall of the disciples of the Gaon of Vilna, or of R. David Luria - the Radal [1798-1855, Otzar HaRabbanim 4890], who edited and arranged the glosses of the Gaon of Vilna on Order Zera'im of the Jerusalem Talmud, printed in Königsberg in 1858). Ownership inscription on the final leaf in a different hand (ca. 18th century): "Belongs to the great and renowned Torah scholar… R. David, author of the commentary on the Jerusalem Talmud, I, the one who is writing, youngest of his disciples, Zev Wolf son of the community leader R. Eli. of Hollesch[au]". The "R. David" owner of this book, may have been R. David Fränkel Rabbi of Berlin (1703-1762, Otzar HaRabbanim 4986), author of the Korban HaEdah and Sheyarei Korban commentaries on the Jerusalem Talmud. 2-65, [1] blank leaf; 83, [1] blank leaf; 56, [3] blank leaves, 57-66; 51 leaves. Lacking first title page, divisional title pages present. Approx. 33 cm. Fair-poor condition. Stains and extensive wear. Marginal tears to many leaves, affecting text and handwritten glosses. Detached leaves and gatherings. Without binding.