[Sefer Tehilim] / ʼamar Daṿid ben Yosef Ḳimḥi ha-Sefaradi ʼamru rabotenu z"l ki Daṿid melekh Yisraʼel katav sifro ze ʻal yede ʻaśara zeḳenim ...
[ספר תהילים] אמר דוד בן יוסף קמחי הספרדי אמרו רבותי׳ ל כי דוד מלך ישראל כתב ספרו זה על ידי עשרה זקנים ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Landau, Jacob ben Judah, active 15th century, editor.

Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser, Joseph ben Jacob, active 15th century, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Bible. Psalms. 1487 (Naples)

Perush Radaḳ ʻal Tehilim

תנ"ך. תהלים. 1487 (נאפולי)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Bible. Psalms--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Bible.

Bible. Psalms.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Bearer impressions.

Penn Provenance:

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. Library (bookplate) (CJS Incunable copy) (CJS Incunable copy 1)

Annenberg Research Institute. Library (stamp) (CJS Incunable copy) (CJS Incunable copy 1)

Leeser, Isaac (bookplate) (CJS Incunable copy)

Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923 (donor) (CJS Incunable copy 1)

Physical Description:

[118] leaves (the last leaf blank) ; 21.1 x 25.9 x 21.4 cm (fol.)

Other Title:

Goff title: תהלים = Tehilim (Psalms)

Place of Publication:

Poh Napoli : ʻal yede ha-meḥoḳeḳ ... Yosef b.r. Yaʻaḳov Ashkenazi [Gunzenhauser], 4 nisan 247 [that is, 28 March 1487]

פה נאפולי : על ידי המחוקק ... יוסף ב״ר יעקב אשכנזי [גונצנהוזר] , ד׳ ניסן, זמ״ר.

Notes:

Title from first line of text on leaf '[1]'1v.

Imprint from colophon on leaf '15'7v.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns (text and commentary, with commentary continuing the full width of the page beneath text). Leaf '2'2r: 38 lines of commentary; area of text: 169 x 129 mm; column width: 63 mm. "Number of lines varying between 31 and 47 lines ... Occasionally anticipating letters of the first word of the next line have been filled in at the end of the line to produce even line-endings."--Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum. Headline on leaves ['1']3-4 and ['1']5v. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. One line of partially inked bearer impressions at foot of leaf '15'6v. Rubrication not called for. Woodcut head-piece with xylographic text ("ASHRE") in Hebrew characters on leaf ['1']2r.

Signatures: [1]‎‎⁶ 2-15‎‎⁸ (first gathering unsigned; subsequent signature marks in Hebrew numerals).

"In quires 6-8, 12 and 13 some signatures have been printed in the second half of the quire on the verso of a conjugate leaf, e.g. the second and third leaf of quire 7 are unsigned, but the signatures 7.3 and 7.2 appear on the verso pages of leaves 7.6 and 7.7."--Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Unvocalized square types for the first word of the introduction and some psalms and for running titles and keywords of the commentary, vocalized square type for the text, and semi-cursive type for the commentary and signature marks. See Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Edited by Jacob ben Judah Landau. See colophon.

Local Notes:

BS1429 .K56 1487 copy 2 measurements: 26.2 x 20.5 x 3.7 cm

CJS Incunable copy imperfect: gathering [1] and leaves '2'1 and '2'3 wanting with photoreproductions of the corresponding leaves from another copy bound in their places; leaf '15'8 (blank) wanting.

CJS Incunable copy: leaf size: 252 x 191 mm.

CJS Incunable copy has been censored with words and passages struck through in brown or black ink.

CJS Incunable copy has early manuscript marginal notes in Hebrew in text.

CJS Incunable copy has bookplate ("LIBRARY OF THE DROPSIE COLLEGE FOR HEBREW AND COGNATE LEARNING COLLECTION OF ISAAC LEESER") on front pastedown; stamp ("ANNENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIBRARY") on photoreproduced leaf '1'1v and leaves '2'4r and '15'7v.

CJS Incunable copy has laid in photoreproduced leaf containing the introduction from another edition of this work with manuscript note ("Xerox of introduction in full") in blue ink on verso.

CJS Incunable copy bound in quarter brown leather over marbled paper boards; 5 raised bands on spine; blind-ruled spine panels; gold-stamped spine title ("TEHILLIM") within gold-stamped frame; place and date of printing stamped in gold at foot of spine.

CJS Incunable copy: fore-edge margin of leaf '2'2 torn off and replaced with a blank leaf; head and tail outer corners of leaves '2'4-'2'5, '2'7, '3'1-'3'5, and '15'7 torn off and mended with blank leaves; leaves '2'6 and '2'8 mutilated with some loss of text and mounted in a frame; leaves '3'6-'3'7 mended at head edge; leaves '8'1-'8'2 mended at head outer corner; leaf '13'3 mended at outer edgess; leaf '15'1 mended at fore-edge.

CJS Incunable copy 1 imperfect: gathering [1] and leaves '2'3, '2'6 and '2'8 wanting with photoreproductions of the corresponding leaves from another copy laid in their places (including an extra copy of leaf '2'1); leaf '15'8 (blank) wanting.

CJS Incunable copy 1 has been censored with passages struck through in brown ink (some with damage to leaf).

CJS Incunable copy 1 has a few early manuscript annotations in Hebrew in text.

CJS Incunable copy 1 has bookplate ("LIBRARY OF THE DROPSIE COLLEGE FOR HEBREW AND COGNATE LEARNING GIFT OF HON. MAYER SULZBERGER") on front pastedown; stamp ("ANNENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIBRARY") on photoreproduced leaf '2'8r and leaves '2'4r, '6'6r, '11'4v and '15'7v.

CJS Incunable copy 1: leaves closely cropped at head margin with frequent damage to or loss of first line(s) of text; head outer corner of leaves '2'4, '2'5, '2'7 mutilated and mended with a blank leaf with some loss of text; head outer corner of leaves '3'1-'3'5 damaged and mended with a blank leaf with minor loss of text; leaf '11'8 damaged at tail edge and reinforced on recto with a blank leaf.

CJS Incunable copy 1: many leaves dampstained at inner margin.

CJS Incunable copy 1: right board and free endpapers detached; left board largely detached; backstrip wanting; leaves '2'4, '2'5, '2'7 and '3'1-'3'4 detached.

Cited in:

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, Heb-29

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, XIII, page 50 (C.50.d.9)

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke 12114 (I)

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog P-813

Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables (CIBN), Heb-13

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library Heb-18

Incunabula short title catalogue ib00525870

Iakerson, S. Catalogue of Hebrew incunabula, 44

Offenberg, A.K. Hebrew incunabula in public collections, 35

Steinschneider, Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in bibliotheca Bodleiana, 6

Vinograd, Otsar, Naples 4

Contains:

Kimhi, David, approximately 1160-approximately 1235. Perush Radaḳ ʻal Tehilim.

OCLC:

1049019199