Kol bo : de-da beh kula beh.
כל בו : דדא ביה כלא ביה.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Printer of the Kol bo, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Fasts and feasts--Judaism--Early works to 1800.

Fasts and feasts.

Jewish law--Early works to 1800.

Jewish law.

Genre:

Early works.

Incunabula -- Italy -- 1491.

Censored works.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

[180] leaves (leaf [6] blank) ; 28.3 x 21 x 5.1 cm (fol.)

Other Title:

Text of leaf pi1r begins: זאת : אות הברית הכרותה ...

Goff title: בו כל = Kol Bo (Complete Ritual)

Place of Publication:

[Italy] : [Printer of the Kol bo], [approximately 1491-1492]

Notes:

Title from leaf [1]1r.

Imprint information from Incunabula short title catalog. Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke suggests Naples as possible place of printing. Goff gives imprint date as approximately 1485.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf [1]2r: 48 lines to a full column; area of text: 202 x 144 mm; column width: 66 mm. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. "Signatures of unusual composition, e.g. 12.1 = [bet][yod] [alef] not [alef] [bet][yod], incorporated in the last line of the page. 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 (in Hebrew numerals): pi⁶ [1]⁸ 2-21⁸ 22⁶ (leaf pi6 blank).

Leaf [1]1 unsigned; leaves [1]2, [1]3 and [1]4 signed [bet], [gimel] and [dalet], respectively.

Printed in square types. See Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Local Notes:

CJS Incunable copy imperfect: all before leaf [1]2 wanting; leaves [1]5, [1]7-[1]8, '7'1, '9'1, '10'2 and '22'6 wanting. Photoreproductions of leaves pi1-pi5, [1]1, [1]5, [1]7-[1]8, '7'1, '9'1, '10'2 and '22'6 are bound in their places.

CJS Incunable copy: leaf size: 261 x 186 mm.

CJS Incunable copy has modern manuscript foliation in pencil in head outer corner of recto of leaves; a few early manuscript annotations in text; some early manuscript censorship of text.

CJS Incunable copy has stamp ("ANNENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIBRARY") on photoreproduced leaves pi1v and '22'6v.

CJS Incunable copy bound in full modern blind-tooled leather; blind-tooled cover edges; blind-ruled turn-ins; 4 raised bands on spine; blind-tooled spine panels; title ("KOL BO") and conjectured imprint place and date ("NAPOLI 1490") stamped in gold on spine; all edges red.

CJS Incunable copy: many leaves dampstained and/or wormed with occasional damage to or loss of text (some wormholes mended); tear across inner column of leaf 7.8; leaves 9.8 and 10.1 mended at inner margin; leaf 19.4 torn and mended vertically across inner column; hole in outer column of leaf 19.8 mended with minor loss of text; upper portion of leaves 20.4 and 20.5 torn off and mended with blank leaves with substantial loss of text (a photoreproduction of each leaf has been tipped in after it); leaves 21.5-21.7 torn across outer column; tear in lower portion of leaf 21.7 mended with minor damage to text; leaves 21.8-22.5 mutilated and mended with blank leaves with some loss of text on all leaves and substantial loss of text on leaves 22.3-22.5.

Cited in:

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, Heb-67

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum XIII, page 78 (C.50.c.10)

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke M16415

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library Heb-30

Incunabula short title catalogue ik00038300

Iakerson, S. Catalogue of Hebrew incunabula, 78

Offenberg, A.K. Hebrew incunabula in public collections, 81

OCLC:

20945931