Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Eruvin printed on Blue Paper, Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1522

Folio (12¾ x 9 1/8 in.; 324 x 232 mm). collation: 1-15^{8, 169=129 leaves; small mended hole in title, a few tiny rustmarks and small spots. Nineteenth-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards; spine gone, joints weak, edges rubbed.}

Moses Gaster—his stamped signature on verso of title page

Vinograd, Venice 62; Habermann 45a (mistakenly records 189 leaves)

Folio (12¾ x 9 1/8 in.; 324 x 232 mm). collation: 1-158, 169=129 leaves; small mended hole in title, a few tiny rustmarks and small spots. Nineteenth-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards; spine gone, joints weak, edges rubbed.
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In Jewish religious property law, an Eruv is a legal aggregation or "mixture" of separate parcels of property. Under certain conditions these mixed properties may be considered a single entity held in common by all the holders of the original parcels.  As a result, certain actions, which might otherwise be prohibited on the Sabbath, such as carrying from one parcel to another, are permitted. Eruvin (mixtures), is the second tractate of the order Mo'ed and deals with all aspects of the Sabbath eruv. It is thus a continuation of the tractate Shabbat, and in fact, it appears that originally the two tractates were combined, but considering that such a combined tractate would have comprised 34 chapters, an inordinately lengthy and unwieldy amount, the tractate was divided into two separate units.