Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Yevamot, Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1522-1528

Folio (12  7/8  x 9½ in.; 322 x 252 mm). collation: 1^{7(of 8)}, 2-15⁸, 16¹⁰, 17⁸, 18⁹ =147 leaves, lacking only the title page.  Initial quire from the editio princeps 1522. Marginal tape repairs; strengthened at gutter; losses to margins and outer corners at head and foot. Woodcut initial word panel. Remaining quires (2-18) supplied from Bomberg's second edition; this tractate printed: 1528.  Numerous leaves strengthened at gutter. dampstaining, mostly at gutter. Nineteenth century three quarter pebbled cloth over paper.

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Due to its length of 16 chapters, tractate Yevamot (levirate marriages) is placed first within the order Nashim, and is even referred to as Nashimin certain manuscripts. This alternate title may be partly warranted by the great variety of laws it contains pertaining to women, far beyond those of levirate marriage with which it primarily deals.  (Vinograd, Venice 57, 125; Habermann 50, 117.)