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Mapping the Vilna Page
View full mapThe map shows the spatial background of the different authors in the layout of the opening folio of the Vilna edition of the Babylonian Talmud (Berachot 2a). Each map replaces the original text and shows the corresponding authors’ historical spatial background. Each map keeps the shape and position of each commentary, uses the box’s own script for all of its lettering, and carries a timeline of the period in which the text was written. Through the map the Vilna folio becomes a journey into 1600 years of Jewish history and geography.