Glosses by the Gaon Rabbi Ya'akov Shalom Sofer of Budapest as mentioned on his Matzevah! Tractate Chulin, Vilna.

Glosses by the Gaon Rabbi Ya'akov Shalom Sofer of Budapest as mentioned on his Matzevah! Tractate Chulin, Vilna.

Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Chulin. Vilna: The Widow and Brothers Romm, Ca 1889.

Copy of Rabbi Ya'akov Shalom Sofer, Rabbi in Budapest. Volume is full with dozens of long scholarly glosses.

To the best of our knowledge, these glosses are unknown and have never been printed.

Rabbi Sofer's glosses on the tractates of his Talmud are mentioned on his tombstone: "He left in his handwriting… wonderful glosses on the Babylonian Talmud… during his public teaching of the Babylonian Talmud at the Chevra Shas… here in the city of B. Pest…".

This is one of these volumes with his glosses compiled during the decades in which he delivered a daily discourse on the Talmud. The date he completed the tractate is inscribed at the end of the tractate. ''B''h i finished this Tractate for the Siyum of Chevrat Shas, Sivan 1897''.

The Gaon Rabbi Ya'akov Shalom Sofer (1854-1921), son of the famous Rabbi Chaim Sofer, author of Machane Chaim (Rabbi of Uzhhorod [Ungvar] and of Budapest, disciple of the Chatam Sofer). Author of the four-volume Torat Chaim on Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim. In 1886, he succeeded his father as Dayan in the Budapest Beit Din at the same time delivering a daily discourse in the Chevrat Shas. His letters were printed in his sefer Yeshevav HaSofer on Tractate Sanhedrin and in his responsa (Jerusalem, 1976). 

Overall Good condition, lacking first 10 pages,   some stains, some pages have marginal tears, later new binding. 40 Cm.