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Sefer Torat ha-adam : ʻal divrat bene ha-adam u-vet moʻed le-khol ḥai / ... ḥibro ... ha-Ramban.
ספר תורת האדם : על דברת בני האדם ובית מועד לכל חי / ... חברו ... הרמב״ן.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Naḥmanides, approximately 1195-approximately 1270, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Torat ha-adam
- תורת האדם http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93001810
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Eschatology, Jewish.
- Jewish mourning customs.
- Jewish mourning customs--Early works to 1800.
- Eschatology, Jewish--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Penn Provenance:
- (Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate)
- (Malter, Henry) (autograph) (CJS copy 1)
- (sons of Valobra, Ya'akov Shemu'el) (autograph) (CJS copy 2)
- (de Benedetti, Barukh and Yitsḥaḳ) (autograph) (CJS copy 2)
- (Lunzer, Jack) (CJS copy 3)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered leaves, 5-108 leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Torat ha-adam
- Shaʻar ha-gemul
- תורת האדם
- שער הגמול
- Place of Publication:
- Nidpas poh Ṿinitsiah : be-mitsṿat Zuʼan Di Garah ha-madpis, 355 [1595]
- נדפס פה ויניציאה : במצות זואן דגארה המדפיס, 355 [1594 או 1595]
- Summary:
- This is the second complete printing of the Torat ha-adam by Ramban, or Nachamanides (Girona 1194 - Jerusalem circa 1270).
- Notes:
- Printers device of Giovanni di Gara, three crowns in a triangle formation, is on the title page.
- Following the title is a poem by Yehudah mi-Modena, or Leon of Modena (Venice 1571 - 1648), and with an introduction by the author following.
- Signatures: 1-27⁴ (signatures in Hebrew and Arabic characters).
- Following the colophon is the text of a letter written by the author to his son from Jerusalem, noting that "[places] that are holier than others are more destroyed than others" (that the holy cities are the most destroyed), and "Jerusalem is the most destroyed in the entire land", following the Siege of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099.
- The title colophon is שנת ש'נ'ה' טובה לפ"ק, and the colophon title is שנת ב'ש'מ'ח'ה' לפ"ק noting that the completion of the volume was in Elul 5395 (August 1595).
- Local Notes:
- CAJS copy 1 rebound in 19th century marbled boards with a black cloth spine. The spine label in partially intact, with the title written in Italian script, circa 1850.
- CAJS copies formerly owned by the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (copies 1 & 2, bookplate; copy 3, inscription).
- CAJS copy 1 formerly owned by Henry Malter, Philadelphia 1915 (signature).
- CAJS copy 2 rebound in early 19th century marbled boards with leather spine, now deteriorating. A handwritten spine label remains, written in Italian script from the early 19th century.
- a CAJS copy 2 formerly purchased from the sons (or heirs) of Ya'akov Shemu'el Valobra; inscribed on title: קניתי מבניו של הק' יעקב שמואל ואלוברא ז"ל - Italian, circa 1700 - 1750.
- CAJS copy formerly owned by brothers Barukh and Yitsḥaḳ de Benedetti. Inscribed on the title page: וזה הספר של האחים ברוך יצחק לבית ברוך יצ"ו - Italian writing, circa 1650.
- CJS copy 3 rebound in modern binding with gold stamped English title on the spine. Missing title and opening leaves, now supplied in facsimile; the first original leaf is l. 5.
- CJS copy 3 inscribed on front paste-down: Dropsie College Library, Gift of Jack Lunzer.
- CJS copy 3 censored by Clemente Renato (signature under the colophon).
- Cited in:
- Friedberg Taṿ 976, 2
- Vinograd, Venice 815
- Steinschneider, 6532:38
- OCLC:
- 123015930
- Online:
- Footprints (copy 1)
- Footprints (copy 2)
- Footprints (copy 3)
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