Hidushe ha-Torah la-rav Rabenu Mosheh bar Naḥman, t.n. ts. bi-ts. ha-ḥ.
חידושי התורה לרב רבינו משה בר נחמן תנצבה.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naḥmanides, approximately 1195-approximately 1270, author.

Contributor:

Eliezer, Rabbi, active 1488-1516, printer.

Zorba, Samuel, active 15th century, printer.

Gedaliah, Judah, active 15th century, typographer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Perush ha-Torah

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

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

Bible.

Bible. Pentateuch.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Incunabula -- Portugal -- Lisbon -- 1489.

Penn Provenance:

Kordovero, Ya'akov (autograph)

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

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

Physical Description:

[301] leaves ; 26.6 x 21.1 x 3.4 cm (fol.)

Edition:

[Second edition].

Other Title:

Goff title: התורה פירוש = Perush ha-Tora (Commentary on the Pentateuch)

Place of Publication:

[Lisbon] : be-vet ha-rav Rabi Zorba ṿe-Raban Eliʻezer [Toledano], Av 18, bi-shenat 249 [that is, 15 July 1489]

[Lisbon] : בבית הרב רבי זורבא ורבנן אליעזר, בשנת ארחם [that is, 15 July 1489]

Notes:

Title from leaf [1]1v.

Edition statement from Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Printer's name and date of printing from colophon on leaf [31]10r. Place of printing supplied from Incunabula short title catalog.

Chancery folio, printed primarily in double columns. Leaf [18]2r: 35 lines to full column, plus headline; area of text: 201 (209) x 138 mm; column width: 63 mm. With double-leaf signatures (i.e. the sheets are numbered in consecutive order) "with a few errors (quire 28: double-leaf 135 numbered 136; quire 30: double-leaf 144 omitted"--Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum. Without foliation or catchwords. "Occasionally a few 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. Text of leaf [1]1v within metal-cut border; metal-cut initials.

Signatures: [1]⁸([1]8+chi1) [2]-[6]⁸ [7]¹² [8]-[13]¹⁰ [14]¹² [15]-[28]¹⁰ [29]-[30]⁸ [31]¹² (leaves [16]10 and [31]12 blank.).

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

"According to M. Marx ... the dotted yod and gimel (sharing one dot) of the word יגדל in the last line of the colophon are an abbreviation for Judah Gedaliah, the foreman or a compositor of the press. He should be identical with the first printer in Salonica, 1515?-1535?."--Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Local Notes:

CJS Incunable copy imperfect: all before leaf [17]1 wanting; leaves [25]1, [26]10-[28]1, [29]1, [29]5, [30]1-[30]2 and [30]7-[31]2 wanting; all after leaf [31]6 wanting. (Leaves [30]3-[30]6 bound in out of order after leaf [31]6.)

CJS Incunable copy: leaf size: 255 x 187 mm.

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

CJS Incunable copy has the inscription of Ya'akov Kordovero.

CJS Incunable copy has bookplate ("LIBRARY OF THE DROPSIE COLLEGE FOR HEBREW AND COGNATE LEARNING") on front pastedown; bookplate ("ANNENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIBRARY") on front pastedown.

CJS Incunable copy bound in half red leather over red cloth; gold ruling on leather corner-pieces; spine double-ruled in gold and head and foot; blind-ruled spine panels; title ("HAMBAN AL HATORAH FRAG.") and place and date of imprint ("LISBON 1489") stamped in gold on spine; all edges stippled red and blue.

CJS Incunable copy: photoreproductions of leaves [1]2r and [1]1v bound in at beginning of volume; photoreproduction of leaf [31]11r bound in at end of volume.

CJS Incunable copy: many leaves closely cropped at head with damage to or loss of headline; most leaves wormed with frequent minor damage to and/or loss of text; many leaves dampstained.

CJS Incunable copy: leaf [17]1 torn and mended across upper portion; leaf [17]1 mended at fore-edge and tail margins; head outer corner of leaves [24]2, [24]5, and [24]7 each mended with a blank leaf; tail inner corner of leaf [24]10 mended with a blank leaf with some loss of text; hole in leaves [28]9 and [28]10 each mended with a blank leaf with some loss of text on [28]9 and substantial loss of text on [28]10; leaf [29]8 mutilated and mended with blank leaves with some loss of text; leaves [31]3-[31]5 mended at fore- and head edges with occasional minor loss of text; leaf [31]6 mutilated and mended with blank leaves with substantial loss of text; leaves [30]3-[30]6 mended at tail margin; portion of leaf [30]6 torn off and mended with a blank leaf with some loss of text.

Cited in:

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, Heb-87

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, XIII, page 94 (C. 50.d.3)

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M25521

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog M-578.050

Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables (CIBN), Heb-27

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library Heb-31

Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, im00866160

Iakerson, S. Catalogue of Hebrew incunabula, 100

Offenberg, A.K. Hebrew incunabula in public collections, 97

OCLC:

1396164694