Divre ʼAgur ben Yaḳeh ... ṿa-ekhtov ... rube Torah shebe-ʻal peh bi-devari[m] asher yiplu ba-hem ha-sefeḳot ṿeha-maḥaloḳot ... gam ekhtov ḥidushim ... / ani Yaʻaḳov Barukh ben ... rabi Yehudah Landa Ashkenazi.
דברי אגור בן יקה ... ואכתוב ... רובי תורה שבעל פה בדברי[ם] אשר יפלו בהם הספקות והמחלוקות ... גם אכתוב חדושים ... אני יעקב ברוך בן ... רבי יהודה לנדא אשכנזי.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Leon, Messer David ben Judah, approximately 1470-1526?, contributor.

Judah ben Jehiel, active 15th century, contributor.

Jacob ben David Provenzalo, contributor.

Ibn Ḥabib, Moses ben Shem Tov, active 15th century-16th century, contributor.

Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser, Azriel ben Joseph, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jewish law--Early works to 1800.

Jewish law.

Fasts and feasts--Judaism--Early works to 1800.

Fasts and feasts.

Fasts and feasts--Judaism.

Genre:

Incunabula -- Italy -- Naples -- 1491.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

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

Physical Description:

[186] leaves (leaves [172] and [180] blanks) ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Goff title: אגור ספר = Sefer Agur (Code of ritual law)

Place of Publication:

[Naples] : [Azriel ben Joseph Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser], [1491-1492]

Contents:

Sefer Agur

[Table of contents]

Sefer Hazon

[Approbations and epilogue].

ספר אגור

ספר חזון.

Notes:

Title from leaf [1]1v (incipit text from Proverbs XXX:1).

Imprint supplied from ISTC.

Chancery quarto. Leaf '3'1r: 33 lines; area of text: 140 x 85 mm. (Number of lines to a full page varies from 29-34; see Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke.) With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. "[T]he signatures mainly on the first and the third leaf (the third leaf signed with a '2'--with errors), from quire 6 to 10 inculsive, quired with the full names of the characters ...; quires 21-23 [i.e. ²1-2‎⁸ 3⁴] (index) numbered 1-3 [the first two signed only on the third leaf and the third signed only on the first leaf], third leaf of quire 24 [i.e. [bet alef]]: [bet] [alef]; the last quire unsigned. 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. Rubrication not called for. Woodcuts: floriate border inhabited by Cupid with drawn bow, 2 putti, and a bird surrounding text of leaf [1]1v; floriate head-pieces, each with xylographic first word of text, on leaves [14]1r and [bet alef]1r.

Signatures: [1]⁸ 2‎-13‎⁸ [14]⁴ 15‎-19‎⁸ [20]⁴, ²1-2‎⁸ 3⁴ [bet alef]⁸ [4]‎⁶ (leaves ²'3'4 and [bet alef]8 blanks).

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum gives signature statement: 1-13⁸ 14⁴ 15‎-19‎⁸ 20⁴ [21]-[22]‎⁸ [23]⁴ [24]‎⁸ [25]⁶. Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke counts 186 leaves but gives (in Hebrew characters): [1]⁸ 2-13⁸ [14]⁴ 15-19⁸ [20]⁴ [bet alef]⁸ [3]⁴ [20]⁸ [1]⁶.

Square types. See Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Contains approbations by Nethanel b. Levi, David ben Judah Messer Leon, Judah ben Jehiel, Jacob ben David Provezalo, Ben-tsion b. Rafael, Isaac b. Samuel Sefardi, Moses b. Shem-Tov ibn Habib, and Solomon Hayim b. Jehiel Raphael Kohen. See Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

The last word on leaf '15'2r reads: בשגודד. A variant reads: בשיורד. See Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Local Notes:

CJS Incunable copy imperfect: all before leaf '2'8 wanting; leaves '8'1, '9'.1, and '10'.3-'10'.6 wanting; gatherings 13-[20] wanting; all after leaf ²3'3 wanting.

CJS Incunable copy: leaf size: 195 x 135 mm.

CJS Incunable copy has early manuscript manicule on leaf '6'6r.

CJS Incunable copy 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 leaves '2'.8r, '7'7v and ²'3'3v.

CJS Incunable copy has photoreproduction of leaf [1]1v bound in at beginning of volume; photoreproduction of [bet alef]7v bound in at end of volume.

CJS Incunable copy bound in half blind-ruled red leather over marbled paper boards; title ("SEFER AGUR") and place and (erroneous) date of printing ("NAPLES 1490") stamped in gold on spine; marbled pastedowns; purplish-brown free endpapers; interior hinges mended with dark red cloth tape.

CJS Incunable copy possibly a made-up copy. Patterns of damage (wormholes and dampstaining) suggest that the following groups of leaves were not originally contiguous with each other: '3'1-'4'8, '5'1-'7'7, '7'8-'12'8 (not including '9'8), ²'1'1-²'2'7, and ²'2'8-²'3'3.

Cited in:

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, Heb-68

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum XIII, page 66 (C.50.b.23, C.50.b.24)

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke 13754

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library Heb-23, Heb-24

Incunabula short title catalogue ij00000100

Iakerson, S. Catalogue of Hebrew incunabula, 56

Offenberg, A.K. Hebrew incunabula in public collections, 82

OCLC:

20704901