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(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN). - Strack, Hermann L. (Ed.) Der Babylonische Talmud. Nach der Einzigen Vollständigen Handschrift München Codex Hebraicus 95.. Two large volumes. Printed on regal paper. Ex-library, list of names (female donors) inscribed on opening blank. Original boards, light wear. Heavy folio. Leiden: 1912. Colossal facsimile of the monumental Munich Codex, the earliest complete manuscript of the entire Babylonian Talmud. It is the only recorded manuscript of the Talmud to have survived the wide-spread destruction of books in both 15th-century Spain and 16th-century Italy. Needless to say, the manuscript contains numerous and significant textual variants from the present received version; it formed the basis of R.N.N. Rabinovicz’s important Dikdukei Sofrim.