[Neviʼim Aḥaronim] : ... Yeshʻayahu, Yirmeyahu, Yeḥezḳel, u-Tere ʻAsar ... / amar Daṿid bar Yosef ben Ḳimḥi ...
נביאים אחרונים.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kimhi, David, approximately 1160-approximately 1235, author.

Contributor:

Soncino, Joshua Solomon, -1493, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Bible. Prophets--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Early works to 1800.

Bible.

Genre:

Bible. -- Prophets.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Incunabula -- Italy -- Soncino -- 1485.

Bearer impressions.

Penn Provenance:

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

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (stamp) (CJS Incunable copy)

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

Israelitische Kultusgemeinde München. Cosman Werner Bibliothek (stamp) (CJS Incunable copy)

Physical Description:

[294] leaves ; 27.9 x 20.6 x 7.9 cm (fol.)

Edition:

[Second edition].

Other Title:

Neviim achronim PU

Goff title: אחרונים נביאים = Nebiim Aḥaronim (Latter Prophets)

Place of Publication:

[Soncino] : [Joshua Solomon Soncino], [approximately 1485]

Notes:

Imprint supplied from ISTC. "Dated in Offenberg about 1485, in Goff 1486"--ISTC.

Chancery folio, printed primarily in double columns. Leaf '1'4r: 44 lines of commentary to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 198 (205) x 193 mm; column width: 61 mm. (Number of lines to a full column varies.) With signatures; without foliation. "Catchwords on the recto and verso pages, these mostly refer to the first word for the commentary in the left hand column ... 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 the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library. Spaces for first words of text of Biblical books.

Signatures (in Hebrew numerals): 1-11⁸, ²1-7⁸ 8¹⁰, ³1-8⁸ 9⁶, ⁴1-8⁸ 9⁶ (leaf ³'9'6 blank).

Square types for text, headlines, signatures, and first lines and key words of commentary; semi-cursive type for remainder of commentary. See Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library.

Local Notes:

BS1509 .K56 1486 copy 2: 31.2 x 22.2 x 6.6 cm

BS1509 .K56 1486 copy 3: 29.9 x 20.9 x 5.3 cm

CJS Incunable copy imperfect: leaf '1'7 wanting; leaves '1'1, '1'2, ⁴'3'8, ⁴'7'6, ⁴'7'8 ⁴'8'2, ⁴'8'7, ⁴'9'1 and ⁴'9'6 each wanting with a photoreproduction bound in its place.

CJS Incunable copy possibly made up: secondary manuscript foliation and patterns of damage on leaves ⁴'7'1-'9'5 suggest their origin in a different copy of this edition from the rest of the book.

CJS Incunable copy: leaf size: 269 x 193 mm.

CJS Incunable copy: rubrication: first words of text of Biblical books supplied by readers in manuscript on leaves ³'1'2r, ⁴'3'2r, ⁴'3'6r, ⁴'4'8r, ⁴'5'1v, ⁴'5'3v, ⁴'6'2v, ⁴'6'5r and ⁴'9'3r; red wash over first line of leaf ⁴'1'1v; occasional red wash over text keywords.

CJS Incunable copy has some annotations in more than one hand throughout text.

CJS Incunable copy: modern manuscript foliation in pencil in head outer corners of rectos of leaves; secondary foliation in ink on leaves ⁴'7'1-'8'6; modern manuscript note ("1 leaf missing 13.4-14.6 inc") in tail margin of leaf ⁴'8'8v.

CJS Incunable copy: bookplate ("LIBRARY OF THE DROPSIE COLLEGE FOR HEBREW AND COGNATE LEARNING GIFT OF HON. MAYER SULZBERGER") on front pastedown; stamp ("THE DROPSIE COLLEGE FOR HEBREW AND COGNATE LEARNING") on leaf 3'1'1r and 3'9'5v; faded blue ink stamp ("Cosman Werner Bibliothek der Israel. Kultusgemeinde München") on leaf 3'1'1r and 3'9'5v

CJS Incunable copy: 5 lines of uninked bearer type at foot of leaf '11'8; 3 lines of uninked bearer type at foot of leaf ²'1'1; 1 line of uninked bearer type at head of leaf ²'1'2; 2 lines of uninked bearer type at foot of leaves ²'9'10 and ³'1'1.

CJS Incunable copy bound in full blind-tooled modern dark red leather; 4 raised bands on spine; title ("NEVIIM ACHRONIM") and place and date of printing ("SONCINO 1486") stamped in gold on spine; all edges stippled red.

CJS Incunable copy: lower portion of leaf '1'3 mutilated and mended with a blank leaf with some loss of text.

CJS Incunable copy: leaves ⁴'7'1-'7'3 and ⁴'7'5-'8'6 (except photoreproductions) mended at all margins with blank leaves; leaf ⁴'7'4 mended at fore-edge, head and inner margins with blank leaves (head margin torn off and mended with some loss of text); lower portion of leaf ⁴'7'5 torn and mended with some damage to text; leaves ⁴'9'2-'9'5 damaged and mended at all margins with some loss of text on leaf ⁴'9'5.

CJS Incunable copy: wormhole in head edge of leaves '2'2-'3'8, ²'1'4-'2'8 and ³'2'8-'3'2; wormhole in tail edge of leaves ³'3'1-'3'8 and ⁴'2'2-'4'2; wormhole in inner margin of leaves ³'1'5-'3'1; wormhole in fore-edge margin of leaves ³'9'6-⁴'1'1 and ⁴'6'7-'6'8; wormhole in tail margin of leaves ⁴'7'1-'8'6 (except photoreproductions); worming in head margin of leaves ³'1'1-'1'2, ³'2'8-'3'2 and ³'9'6-⁴4'6'8; worming in tail outer corner of leaves ³'9'6-⁴'2'5 (some damage mended).

CJS Incunable copy: leaf '1'5 dampstained; leaf '1'7 stained in previous fold(?) pattern.

Cited in:

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, Heb-24

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum XIII, page 35 (C.50.d.8/2)

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke M35702

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog P-806

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library Heb-11, Heb-12

Incunabula short title catalogue ib00525780

Iakerson, S. Catalogue of Hebrew incunabula, 26

Offenberg, A.K. Hebrew incunabula in public collections, 29

OCLC:

249064896