Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Pesahim, Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1519-20

Folio (13 x 9 in.; 330 x 228 mm). collation: 1-16^{8, 176, 185=139 leaves, double-leaf signatures; woodcut initial; lacking title supplied in photocopy, worming in second leaf affecting a few words with some marginal pen-trials, some marginal mends, light worming on a few leaves, marginal soiling and staining. Half vellum.}

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Folio (13 x 9 in.; 330 x 228 mm). collation: 1-168, 176, 185=139 leaves, double-leaf signatures; woodcut initial; lacking title supplied in photocopy, worming in second leaf affecting a few words with some marginal pen-trials, some marginal mends, light worming on a few leaves, marginal soiling and staining. Half vellum.
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Pesahim (Passovers), is the third tractate in the order Mo'ed. Pesahim deals, in ten chapters, with the laws concerning the Passover festival.  The term Pesah refers primarily to the paschal sacrifice, but was applied also to the festival itself and the tractate deals with both subjects. In geonic times the tractate was still divided correspondingly into two parts called Pesah Rishon and Pesah Sheni, or First and Second Passovers.

Chapters 1–4 deal with the practical matters relevant to the celebration of the holiday including the laws of matzah and hametz. These chapters retain their relevancy even  to the present day insofar as they deal with the requirements of the holiday, celebrated annually by Jews around the world. Chapters 5–9 discuss the issues surrounding the paschal sacrifice that took place when the Temple still stood in Jerusalem. The evening of the seder itself is treated in chapter 10. The two parts were later combined and given the name Pesahim (in the plural). In this edition the end of Pesah Rishon can be found on f. 57v.