Talmud Yerushalmi (Jerusalem Talmud), Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1523

267 leaves (15 x 10 1/8 in.; 381 x 256 mm).  Four woodcut architectural title borders, woodcut head-pieces; minor marginal mends in first two leaves and two later leaves, ink-stain neatly confined to extreme fore-edge and upper margin of last few quires. Seventeenth-century Dutch vellum, blind-tooled in a panel design with central arabesque stamp and fleur-de-lys at the four corners, vellum flap attached to rear board with title on manuscript; brass clasps and catches; a few stains, soiling, tears in backstrip repaired with cello tape.

267 leaves (15 x 10 1/8 in.; 381 x 256 mm). Four woodcut architectural title borders, woodcut head-pieces; minor marginal mends in first two leaves and two later leaves, ink-stain neatly confined to extreme fore-edge and upper margin of last few quires. Seventeenth-century Dutch vellum, blind-tooled in a panel design with central arabesque stamp and fleur-de-lys at the four corners, vellum flap attached to rear board with title on manuscript; brass clasps and catches; a few stains, soiling, tears in backstrip repaired with cello tape.
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