Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Shabbat Printed on Blue Paper, Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1520

Folio (12¾ x 9 in.; 324 x 228 mm). collation: 1-24^{8=192 leaves; margins a bit short with a few headlines shaved. Owner's signature on title, another signature  and stamp on f. 2. Half buckram.}

Moses Gaster—his stamped signature on verso of title page

Vinograd, Venice 32; Habermann 19

Folio (12¾ x 9 in.; 324 x 228 mm). collation: 1-248=192 leaves; margins a bit short with a few headlines shaved. Owner's signature on title, another signature and stamp and f.2. Half buckram.
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Central to religious Jewish life is the weekly observance of the Sabbath. Tractate Shabbat, dealing in 24 chapters with the laws relating to the Sabbath is the first tractate in the order Mo'ed. Although originally conjoined with tractate Eruvin, due to the sheer length of the combined tractates (some 34 chapters), the two were later separated. The enumeration of the 39 principal categories of works forbidden on the Sabbath and the definitions of these various labors, occupy significant portions of the tractate.