Manuscript, Talmud Bavli, Tractate Shevuot. [Western Europe], 1717.

Pocket-format volume of Gemara. Complete copying of the tractate, in Ashkenazic cursive script (titles in square script). The scribe copied the text of the Gemara without commentators.

At beginning of manuscript, printed engraving of illustrated title page, apparently printed in Amsterdam, cut and mounted on paper with title page for Tractate Shevuot, dated 1717.

Ownership inscription on front endpaper.

On back endpaper, ownership inscription dated 1846.

[55] leaves. 14.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dark inkstains to several leaves. Wear. Light worming to several leaves. Several leaves detached. Original parchment binding, with minor defects.

Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.