Details

Subject(s)

• Jewish law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Incunabula (Genre) [Browse]

Notes

• Princeton copy 1 Missing the first blank and the first 11 printed leaves; the blank between Parts I and II; and the final 2 leaves (including colophon), all of which are present in facsimile. Provenance: Elkan Nathan Adler (1861-1946); Joseph Wineman copy. Gift of David Feinberg (New York City), December 2021.
• The first book printed in Constantinople.
• Title and imprint from colophon.
• Colophon: ... le-khakh hishtadalnu le-harbits Torah be-Yisrael ʻal yad ha-umanim R. Daṿid [ibn] Naḥmiaś ṿe-R. Shmuel aḥiṿ ... ṿeha-siman she-hayitah hashlamtah elu ha-ṭurim ... yom 6, 4 le-Ṭevet, shenat ḥamishat alefim ṿe-meʼatayim ṿe-ḥamishim ṿe-arbaʻah. Po ba-ʻir Kosṭananṭina rabah ...
• Corrected by Elia ben Benjamin ha-Levi.
• In two columns, in a rabbinic cursive type (20 lines = 91 mm).

References

• Goff Heb-49
• Offenberg, A.K. Hebrew incunabula ... census, 63
• Yaari, A. Hebrew printing at Constantinople, 1 (p. 59)
• Offenberg, A.K. "The first printed book produced at Constantinople." Studia Rosenthaliana, III (l969): 96-116

OCLC

82654513

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