(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).

Bomberg

Venice

1522

Masechta Temurah [The Substituted Offering] With commentary by Rash”i, Tosafoth, etc. ff. 34. [Vinograd, Venice 65; Habermann, Bomberg 54]. * Bound With: Masechta Erechin [Vows of Valuation]. ff. 35. [Vinograd, Venice 63; Habermann, Bomberg 58]. * Masechta Me’ilah, Kinim, Tamid, Midoth, S’machoth, Kallah, Sophrim. ff. 47 (ff. 42-47 misbound at end of volume). [Vinograd, Venice 79; Habermann, Bomberg 64]. * ASHER BEN YECHIEL (RO”SH). Hilchoth Ketanoth [laws of Sepher Torah, Mezuza, Tephillin, etc.] ff.15. [Vinograd, Venice 72 (notes only 14 leaves); Habermann, Bomberg 61 (cf. 46)]

Rabinowitz, Talmud pp. 35-42; Heller, Printing the Talmud pp. 135-54

The volume containing the slim tractates of Me’ilah, Kinim, Tamid, Midoth, S’machoth, Kallah, Sophrim was the final volume printed by Bomberg in order to complete the first edition of the entire Talmud. It contains two lengthy colophons on the verso of the final leaf. One is by the editor Chiya Meir ben David and the other by Cornelius Adelkind. They note how Bomberg sent agents abroad to gather the necessary texts in order to assemble the Talmud. Adelkind also discusses the original idea of standardizing the pages of the Talmud and other important editorial matters