[Perush ha-Torah].
[פרוש התורה].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levi ben Gershom, 1288-1344, author.

Contributor:

Conat, Abraham ben Solomon, active 15th century, printer.

Avraham Yedidyah ha-Ezraḥi mi-Ḳoloniya, active 15th century, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Perush ʻal ha-Torah ʻal derekh beʼur

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

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

Bible. Pentateuch.

Genre:

Commentaries

Incunabula -- Italy -- Mantua -- 1475-1476.

Physical Description:

[412] leaves (leaves [257], [338] and [410]-[412] blanks) ; 31 cm (fol.)

Other Title:

opening text : Leṿi ben Gershom yitbarakh ṿe-yitʻaleh ha-tsur [...]

לוי בן גרשום יתברך ויתעלה הצור [...]

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

Place of Publication:

[Mantua] : Avraham Konat ben m.R. Shelomoh Konat ... Avraham Yedidyah ha-Ezraḥi y.ts.v. mi-Ḳoloniya, [1475-1476].

[מנטובה] : אברהם כונת בנמר שלמה כונת ... אברהם ידידיה האזרחי יצו' מקולונייא, [1475-1476].

Notes:

"Author's name also recorded as Gersonides"--Incunabula short title catalogue.

Title from ISTC; alternate title from opening text -- leaf [1]1r.

Printers' names from colophon on leaf [43]3v. Place and date of printing supplied from Incunabula short title catalogue. "On the date of printing see A.K. Offenberg in The Library, 6th ser., 16 (1994) pp. 298-315"--Incunabula short-title catalogue. (Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke gives date: around 1475.)

Median folio, printed in double columns (colophon in variated tapered column). Leaf [5]6r: 42 lines to a full column; area of text: 236 x 155 mm; column width: 73 mm. Space for the first word of text on leaf [1]1r to be supplied in manuscript. Without signatures or foliation. "Four catchwords only, incorporated in the running text, from quire to quire (1-2, 13-14, 14-15, 28-29). The last word of the recto of the leaf, also incorporated in the running text, has been repeated a few times (18x) on the following verso, or from the verso to the recto of the leaf. In combination with abbreviated words and wide spaces, occasionally one anticipating letter of the next line has 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: [1]-[18]¹⁰ [19]⁸ [20]¹⁰ [21]⁶ [22]-[25]¹⁰/⁸ [26]¹⁰ [27] [28]-[32]¹⁰ [33]-[34]⁸ [35]¹⁰ [36]⁸ [37]-[42]¹⁰ [43]⁶ (leaves [27]7, [35]10, and [43]4-[43]6 blanks).

Signature statement and enumeration of blanks from Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Initial words in square type; text in semi-cursive type. See Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Local Notes:

CJS Incunable copy imperfect: all before leaf [5]1 wanting with photoreproductions bound in their places; leaves [5]3, [5]8, [6]1, [6]10, [23]4, [23]5, [26]10, [41]4, [41]7, and [41]9-[43]3 wanting with photoreproductions bound in their places; leaf [27]6 wanting with a photoreproduction bound in after leaf [25]8; leaves [27]7 (blank), [35]10 (blank), and [43]4-[43]6 (blanks) wanting.

CJS Incunable copy: leaf size: 296 x 211 mm.

CJS Incunable copy has manuscript annotation in Hebrew in blue pencil in head margin of leaf [5]4; manuscript annotations in Hebrew on leaves [6]9r, [8]9v and [19]8v; partially illegible manuscript inscription ("Se questo libro […] Se questo libro Se perdesse […]ome […]") on leaf [19]8v.

CJS Incunable copy: portions of 2 lines of text on leaf 28[5]r effaced.

CJS Incunable copy bound in full modern blind-tooled red leather; blind-ruled turn-ins; 4 raised, blind-ruled bands on spine; blind-ruled spine panels; title ("RALBAG") and imprint place and date ("MANTOVA 1476") stamped in gold on spine; all edges red.

CJS Incunable copy: leaf [7]1 bound in out of order after leaf [7]9 with a photoreproduction also bound in its proper place; leaves [15]3 and [15]8 bound in out of order after leaf [3]10; leaf [16]1 bound in verso first.

CJS Incunable copy: leaves [7]1, [7]10, [12]1, and [18]10 each mutilated at fore-edge and mended with a blank leaf with some loss of text; leaf [16]1 mutilated and mended at inner margin with some loss of text; tail outer corner of leaf [19]8 excised and replaced with a blank leaf; upper portion of leaf [21]6 mutilated and mended with a blank leaf with some loss of text; leaf [25]1 mutilated at fore-edge and at head inner corner and mended with blank leaves with minor loss of text; leaf [25]8 mutilated at fore-edge and mended with a blank leaf with minor damage to text.

CJS Incunable copy: hole in tail outer corner of leaves [15]3, [12]6-[12]7, [13]9, [14]4-[14]9, [15]1-[15]2, [15]4, [16]2-[16]3, [16]8-[16]10, [17]2, [17]5-[17]10, [18]3-[18]4, [18]7-[18]9, [19]3, [21]2-[21]3, [22]1-[23]3, [23]6-[24]10, [25]3, and [36]7 each mended with a blank leaf with minor loss of text; hole in tail outer corner of leaves [15]8, and [12]4-[12]5 each mended with a blank leaf with minor loss of text (supplied in manuscript on verso); hole in tail outer corner of leaves [13]1-[13]2, [14]2, [20]5-[20]8, [25]2, [25]4, and [25]7 each mended with a blank leaf; hole in tail margin of leaf [41]1-[41]3, [41]5-[41]6, and [41]8 each mended with a blank leaf; hole in fore-edge margin of leaves [16]2, [18]1, [20]4, [20]10-[21]1, [21]4-[21]5, [27]2 each mended with a blank leaf.

CJS Incunable copy: fore-edge margin of leaf [5]1 torn off and mended with a blank leaf with minor loss of text; portion of fore-edge margin of leaf [9]1 torn off and mended with a blank leaf with minor loss of text; portion of fore-edge margin of leaf [41]1 torn off and mended with a blank leaf; leaves [5]9, [6]2-[6]9, [8]1-[8]2, and [10]1 each damaged and mended with blank leaves at fore- and tail edges; leaf [11]10 damaged and mended with a blank leaf in fore-edge margin; leaves [9]1, [12]10, and [25]8 each mended with a blank leaf at tail edge.

CJS Incunable copy: head outer corner of leaves [7]8 and [10]2 each torn off and mended with a blank leaf with minor damage to text; head outer corner of leaves [8]1-[8]2 torn off and mended with a blank leaf with minor loss of text; head outer corner of leaves [41]2-[41]3 and [41]5 each torn off and mended with a blank leaf; head and tail outer corners of leaf [5]2 torn off and mended with blank leaves with minor damage to text; head and tail outer corners of leaves [5]4, [5]7, [5]10, and [41]8 torn off and mended with blank leaves with minor loss of text; head and tail outer corners of leaves [5]5 and [41]6 torn off and mended with blank leaves; tail outer corner of leaves [36]8-[37]7 each torn off and mended with a blank leaf.

CJS Incunable copy: tear in upper portion of leaves [8]4 and [21]5 mended; lower portion of leaf [22]1 torn and mended with minor damage to text.

CJS Incunable copy: many leaves dampstained; head outer corner of leaves [13]10-[14]1 dampstained with minor loss of and damage to text (some text supplied in manuscript).

CJS Incunable copy has printed fold error on leaf [40]2.

Cited in:

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, Heb-69

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum XIII, page 17 (C.50.d.2)

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke M18044

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog L-131

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library Heb-5, Heb-6

Incunabula short title catalogue il00189700

Iakerson, S. Catalogue of Hebrew incunabula, 16

Offenberg, A.K. Hebrew incunabula in public collections, 50

OCLC:

20970149