Talmud Bavli, Seder Kodashim, Tractates Bechorot, Me'ilah, Arachin, Temurah and Keretot, and Tamid, Midot and Kinin, "with all the commentators, as previously printed in Slavita and Vilna…". Lviv: Avraham Yitzchak Menkes and Shlomo Sprecher, 1866.
Small (travel) format, with every two pages corresponding to one page of the common Talmud foliation. Tractates have one to three title pages.
On second title page of Bechorot, signature of
"Ber son of R. A. Zwebner" – R. Yissachar Ber Zwebner (1830-1901), son of R. Avraham Shag, Rabbi of Kobersdorf. Immigrated from Hungary to Eretz Israel in 1865, becoming a leading public figure in Jerusalem.
Over a hundred glosses in Ashkenazic script ca. date of printing [apparently in the handwriting of R. Yissachar Ber Zwebner], some particularly lengthy. On endpapers, additional inscriptions of Torah novellae on Tractate Keretot, including a copying of a correspondence with a contemporary Torah authority on the difference between oil and incense (the identity of the correspondent is unclear). In a gloss to Keretot 8a (second page) he refers to a handwritten gloss by his father.
[520] leaves + 2 folding plates with illustrations of the Temple and the Temple Mount. 22 cm. Overall good to good-fair condition. Stains. Wear and tears. Open tears to plates and endpapers. Elaborate leather binding, new.
