The book "The Babylonian Talmud. Bava Batra"

(Mykolaiv Regional Museum of Culture and Traditions)

The book "The Babylonian Talmud. Bava Batra"

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The book "The Babylonian Talmud. Bava Batra" with tosefot (applications) and comments. The name "Bava Batra" literally translates as "the last chapter", which is one of the 10 tractates of the fourth chapter ("Nezikin", that means "Damages") of the Mishnah, which is the  part of the Talmud. The book "The Babylonian Talmud. Bava Batra" was the second edition of the book published in Warsaw in 1876 with additions and comments and was released in 1882 in Vilna in a publishing house of Romm's widow and brothers. The book contains 654 pages and is written in Aramaic, the comments to the text of Talmud are on the both sides from mishnayot in Hebrew and in Yiddish. Book cover is made of brown leather, on the top of the cover and on the  spine the embossed deep ornament with floral motifs is plotted. The front and the first page are printed in two colors (in red and black) with elements of art-design, the title page has the inscription in two languages.

 

Museum / institution
Mykolaiv Regional Museum of Culture and Traditions
Inventory number in the institution
КП-33 491 Д-17 678
History, source, type and date of acquisition
From a Jewish family. Transferred by Kolomiec V.S. from the city of Mykolaiv, 1987.
Production period
CE
Technique
printing, lettering
Religious holiday / lifecycle
for religious use
Religious holiday / lifecycle, comment
The tractate for the study of Jewish laws. The tractate "Bava Batra" is devoted to the issues of individual responsibility and rights of the subject of property.
Era
middle of XIX - end of XIX
Materials
cardboard, paper, leather
Dimensions, cm
width: 27.00, height: 5.20, length: 40.00
Preservation condition
bad
Description of the preservation condition
Traces of beetles, yellowing of pages, strained pages, some sheets are lost.
Restoration
Requires immediate restoration.
Current location
in storage