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If one goes through the citations in the Milon Even Shoshan, one might see references to words from the Yerushalmi with attribution like this:

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Please zoom in and look at the entry for pileish, on the last line of the right column of page 1298. The reference is to ירושלמי סוכה נג ד

The amud is "dalet". I had it explained to me that an early printing of the Yerushalmi was in 4 columns so the citation for amud is to the particular column.

However, I vaguely recall a Yerushalmi in which there were quadrants on the page. I don't know if I am remembering some version of the text described in this question, or it there is another layout of the Yerushalmi using quadrants which specifically explains the aleph-dalet amud references. Does anyone know of a quadrant based layout specifically for the Yerushalmi?

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  • The reference to ammud gimmel usually refers to pages with more than one column per page.
    – mevaqesh
    Feb 19, 2015 at 16:20

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The reference is to the pages of the Venice printing of the Talmud Yerushalmi (5283/1523). Each folio is divided into four columns, two on each side of the page, and these are the numbers of the amud (1 and 2 on the front, 3 and 4 on the back).

The sentence quoted from page 53d (Sukka, chapter 3, law 6) appears in the middle of the left column of this page.

Below is a picture of a newer, clearer typeset maintaining the original Venice pagination.

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  • @Oliver Interestingly the division into columns is off by a few words
    – b a
    Dec 5, 2018 at 20:46
  • Part of the reason I only wrote “pagination” ;) (hope still useful)
    – Oliver
    Dec 5, 2018 at 21:03

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