- (right) Illustration of the
Pesach Seder from the
Sarajevo Haggadah, a
magnifi cently illuminated
manuscript dated to the
mid-fourteenth century. - (below) Text of b. Meilah
20a-21a in the Baylonian
Talmud printed by Daniel
Bomberg in Venice in 1519.
The central panels, in which
the Mishnah is followed by
the gemara (the amoraic
discussion), are surrounded
by medieval commentaries in
a less formal (‘Rashi’) script.
This format, established by
Bomberg, has remained
standard in later printings of
the Talmud.
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