Zeh sefer Mivḥar ha-peninim : bi-melitsat ha-ḥakhami ha-ḳadmoni. u-mishle filosfosim ... / Shelomoh b. R. Perets Bonfoy.
זה ספר מבחר הפנינים : במליצת החכמי׳ הקדמוני׳ ומשלי פילוסופים ... חורק מכלים אל כלים שונים שלמה ב״ר פרץ בונפוי.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ibn Gabirol, active 11th century, attributed name, compiler.

Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi, approximately 1270-approximately 1340, attributed name.

Tibon, Yehudah ibn, approximately 1120-approximately 1190, translator.

Shelomoh ben-Perets Bonfoi, active 15th century, editor.

Soncino, Joshua Solomon, -1493, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Mivḥar ha-peninim.

Language:

Arabic

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Aphorisms and apothegms--Early works to 1800.

Aphorisms and apothegms.

Genre:

Early works.

Incunabula -- Italy -- Soncino -- 1484.

Penn Provenance:

Enriquez, Antonio Francesco, active 1683-1689 (inscription) (CJS Incunable copy)

Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Urbino. Archbishop (1685-1701 : Roberti) (inscription) (CJS Incunable copy)

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

Shabtai ben Avraham (inscription) (CJS Incunable copy)

Physical Description:

[60] leaves (the first leaf blank) ; 17.8 x 13.5 x 2.4 cm (4to)

Other Title:

incipit text : Tedaʻ ṿe-haśkel ki ʻal kol dibur ṿe-dibur shel zeh ha-sefer me-ṭaplim

incipit text : תדע והשכל כי על כל דבור ודבור של זה הספר מטפלים

Goff title: הפנינים מבחר = Mibḥar ha-Peninim (Choice of Pearls : Maxims, Proverbs, and Moral Reflections)

Place of Publication:

[Soncino] : Yehoshuʻa ben Yiśraʼel Natan Ish Śontsin, ha-yom ha-17 be-shevaṭ 244 [that is, 14 January 1484]

[שונצינו] : יהושע בן כמ"ר ישראל נתן איש שונצין, היום הז"ה בשב"ט ... שנת רד"ם.

[Soncino] : דפוס יהושע בן ישראל נתן איש שונצין, יז שבט רמ״ד.

Language Note:

Translated from Arabic by Yehudah ibn Tibon. See ISTC.

Notes:

Title from leaf [alef]2r.

Compiled by Ibn Gabirol; formerly attributed to Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi. See Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Attributed to Ibn Gabirol -- Steinschneider.

"With an anonymous commentary. Corrected by Solomon ben Perets Bonfoy Tsarfati."--Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum. Corrector note at end of colophon.

Printer's name and imprint date from colophon on leaves [chet]3v-[chet]4r. Place of printing supplied from ISTC.

Chancery quarto. Leaf [alef]3r: 32 lines; area of text: 141 x 91 mm. With signatures; without foliation. "Catchwords on recto and verso pages, used irregularly, as last words of the last line on the page. In all eight-leaf quires catchwords from the fourth to the fifth leaf ... 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]-[zayin]⁸ [het]⁴ (leaf [alef]1 blank).

Square types for title and text; semi-cursive type for commentary.

Local Notes:

CJS Incunable copy: leaf size: 156 x 118 mm.

CJS Incunable copy has early Italian manuscript inventory of household linens on blank leaves at beginning and end of volume; partially illegible early Italian manuscript inscription ("Al molto mio honorando [...] francesco de gr[...] basisto [...]") on leaf [alef]1r; partially illegible early Italian manuscript inscription ("Stimabo[?] 25 6 [...]") on leaf [alef]1v.

CJS Incunable copy has manuscript note in Hebrew on blank leaf preceding back free endpaper: לה' הארץ ומלואה שבתי בכמ"ר אברהם יצ"ו".

CJS Incunable copy has bookplate ("LIBRARY OF THE DROPSIE COLLEGE FOR HEBREW AND COGNATE LEARNING GIFT OF HON. MAYER SULZBERGER") on front pastedown.

CJS Incunable copy has on leaf [chet]4r dated 17th century manuscript inscription ("Revisto [per] me Antonio Fran[cesco] Enriquez d'ord[in]e dell Ill[ustrissi]mo[?] E[cce]ll[entissi]mo[?] mons[i]g[nore][?] Arciv[escovo] d' Orbino 1687") of censor Antonio Francesco Enriquez (active 1683-1689) by order of Antonio Francesco Roberti (1629-1701, archbishop of Urbino (1685-1701). See W. Popper, The censoship of Hebrew books, page 139 (sec. 44) and CERL, Owners of incunabula, data.cerl.org/owners/00022456 (viewed 17 August 2023).

CJS Incunable copy has in tail margin of leaf [het]3v 18th-century(?) oval armorial stamp of an unidentified former owner. See CERL, Owners of incunabula, data.cerl.org/owners/00029087 (viewed 17 August 2023).

CJS Incunable copy bound in full modern brown leather; boards triple-ruled in blind; 4 raised bands on spine; blind-ruled spine panels; title ("MIVCH HAPENI") stamped in gold on spine; place and date of printing stamped in gold at foot of spine; housed in slip case.

CJS Incunable copy: leaves [alef]1-[gimel]2 and [gimel]6-[gimel]7 damaged and mended at fore-edge and/or head edge with minor losses of text on [alef]2-[alef]7; leaves closely cropped at outer margins with damage to signature mark on leaf [alef]3.

Cited in:

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, Heb-98

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum XIII, page 28 (C.50.b.4, C.50.b.4*)

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke M41205

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog S-249

Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables (CIBN), Heb-29

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library Heb-7

Incunabula short title catalogue is00625250

Iakerson, S. Catalogue of Hebrew incunabula, 21

Offenberg, A.K. Hebrew incunabula in public collections, 57

Steinschneider, Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in bibliotheca Bodleiana, 6916:1

OCLC:

20946636