Igeret ḥevrah he-ḥakham ha-gadol ha-meshorer ha-Bederśi Anboniṭ Avram ha-niḳreʼet Beḥinat ha-ʻolam.
אגרת חברה החכם הגדול המשורר הבדרשי אנבוניט אברם הנקראת בחינת העולם.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi, approximately 1270-approximately 1340, author.

Contributor:

Soncino, Joshua Solomon, -1493, printer.

Standardized Title:

Beḥinat ʻolam

בחינת עולם

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi, approximately 1270-approximately 1340. Beḥinat ʻolam--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi.

Jewish ethics--Early works to 1800.

Jewish ethics.

Genre:

Incunabula -- Italy -- Soncino -- 1484.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Cohen, Joshua I., 1801-1870 (former owner) (CJS Incunable copy)

Physical Description:

[20] leaves ; 19 x 13.2 x 1 cm (4to)

Edition:

[Second edition]

Other Title:

Goff title: עולם בחינת = Beḥinat olam (Contemplation of the world)

Place of Publication:

Poh Śontsino : [Joshua Solomon Soncino], 24 Kislev 245 [that is, 12 December 1484]

פה שונצינו : [יהושע שלמה שונצינו], כ"ד כסליו רמה

Notes:

Title from caption on leaf [alef]1r.

Place of printing and printer's name from colophon on leaf [gimel]4v. Printer's name from ISTC.

Chancery quarto. Leaf [alef]3r: 29 lines; area of text: 131 x 91. With signatures; without foliation. "Irregular use of catchwords ... 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.

Signatures: [alef]-[bet]⁸ [gimel]⁴ (leaf [alef]1 unsigned).

"With anonymous commentary."--ISTC.

Square type for text, initial words of commentary, and signature marks; semi-cursive type for commentary. See Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Edition from Steinschneider.

Author's name in title in reference to his French name En-Bonet.

Local Notes:

CJS Incunable copy imperfect: leaf [alef]2 wanting with a folded paper leaf ([2] pages) containing the missing text in semi-cursive script bound in its place; lower portion of leaf [alef]1 excised and mended with a paper leaf containing the missing text in semi-cursive script.

CJS Incunable copy: leaf size: 184 x 124 mm.

CJS Incunable copy has manuscript foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil on head outer corners of rectos of leaves; early manuscript letters ("A A") in tail margin of leaf [alef]3v; early manuscript annotation in Hebrew in line 29 of leaf [bet]8v.

CJS Incunable copy has bookplate ("LIBRARY OF THE DROPSIE COLLEGE FOR HEBREW AND COGNATE LEARNING THE HEBREW LIBRARY OF THE LATE DR. JOSHUA I. COHEN OF BALTIMORE") on front pastedown; round stamp ("ANNENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIBRARY") on leaves [alef]1r and [gimel]4v.

CJS Incunable copy bound in full blind-tooled leather; 5 raised bands on spine; Romanized Hebrew title ("BEHINAT OLAM") stamped in gold on spine; place and date of printing stamped in gold at foot of spine; head and tail edges stippled red.

CJS Incunable copy with two manuscript corrections, approximately 1500-1550, in the outer margins of [aleph]2 recto and [aleph] 3 recto.

CJS Incunable copy lower section of leaf [alef]1 and [alef]2; text and commentary supplied in manuscript (in a 17th century Italian script; manuscript content on leaf [alef]1 recto extraneous); second leaf outer edge folded inside book (leaf width: 150 mm).

Cited in:

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, Heb-61

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum XIII, page 31 (C.50.b.21)

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke M11898

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog I-34

Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables (CIBN), Heb-32

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Heb-8

Incunabula short title catalogue ij00218530

Iakerson, S. Catalogue of Hebrew incunabula, 23

Offenberg, A.K. Hebrew incunabula in public collections, 76

Steinschneider, M., Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 5670:2

Tamani, I Tipografi ebrei a Soncino, 4

Vinograd, Otsar, Soncino 8

OCLC:

1048988101