Sefer ʻIr giborim : ṿe-hem derashot ʻal ha-Torah / ḥiber ... Efrayim ben ... Aharon ... toshav ḳ.ḳ. Levov ha-nikra Lemborg..
עיר גיבורים : והם דרשות על התורה חיבר אפרים בכמ״הרר אהרן תושב ק"ק לבוב הנקרא לעמבורג...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ephraim Solomon ben Aaron, of Luntshits, 1550-1619, author.

Mordekhai ben Mosheh, Ha-levi, ish Prag, author of afterword, etc., publisher.

Contributor:

Ephraim Solomon ben Aaron, of Luntshits, 1550-1619.

Froben, Ambrosius, 1537-1602, publisher, printer.

Zifroni, Israel ben Daniel, active 16th century, printer.

אפרים שלמה בן אהרן, מלונטשיץ.

מרדכי בן משה, הלוי, איש פראג.

זיפרוני, ישראל בן דוד.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Bible. Pentateuch--Sermons.

Bible.

Jewish sermons--Texts.

Jewish sermons.

Bible. Pentateuch.

Genre:

Sermons.

Penn Provenance:

Halfin-Lifshitz, Mosheh (iron stamp) (Kislak Copy)

Herrlein, Zeligman (Yitsḥaḳ ben Elḥanan) (autograph) (Kislak Copy)

Shemuʼel bar Yaʻaḳov Shimʻon (autograph) (Kislak Copy)

David ben Binyamin, of Halberstadt (autograph) (Kislak Copy)

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (former owner) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)

Annenberg Research Institute (stamp) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)

Hevreh Shas (Nyírbogát, Hungary) (stamp) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)

Physical Description:

136 leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)

Edition:

[first edition]

Manufacture:

[Basel, Switzerland] : Yiśraʼel ha-Zifroni ha-meḥoḳeḳ Y.ts.ṿ., ...asher teḥilato ba-Rosh ḥodesh Siṿan, ṿa-tishlam kol ha-melʼakhah ʻerev Shabat Naḥamu shenat [5]340 [that is, begun on 25 May, and completed on 1 August 1580]

Place of Publication:

Poh Basiliah ha-ʻir ha-gedolah ha-mehulalah ... [Basel, Switzerland] : be-mitsṿat ha-śar Ambrosio Frobenio Y.ts.ṿ. uve-beto, [5340, that is, 1580]

פה בסיליאה העיר הגדולה המהוללה : במצות אמברוסיאו פרוביניאו יצ"ו ובביתו, נדפס בשנת י'ח'ס'ו' ע'נ'י'י' ע'מ'ו' לפרט קטן [הש"מ]

Notes:

Printed in two columns, in square type.

Title page printed inside an ornamental border; "ספר עיר גיבורים" printed in Ashkenazic square type; printing device of Ambrosius Froben at lower center (type-ornament border, around a caduceus with a dove center, text FRO | BEN ).

Conspectus following text -- gathering R.

Printer information, and date of publication, taken from colophon.

Signatures: A-Q⁸ R¹⁰ (register on final leaf, recto: "Registrum, -- ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQ Quaterniones, R, Quinternio".

Extended title page statement details the author's manuscript sojourned from Prague to Basel for print, through Mordekhai ben Mosheh Ha-levi ish Prag; his afterword printed on final leaf, verso, with additional details ("ובהגיע תור גמר הספר בס"ד וראה... מרדכי הלוי יזיי"א את המלאכה..."); that the author sought him out after traveling with the manuscript from "Medinat Raysn" [Red Ruthenia], and that he traveled to Basel for the reputation of Israel Zifroni; see the afterword.

Local Notes:

Kislak copy complete.

Kislak copy bound behind: 1. Albelda, Moses ben Jacob. Sefer ʻOlat tamid [Venice : Daniel Zanetti, 1600] ; 2. Adarbi, Isaac ben Samuel. Sefer Divre shalom [Venice : Matteo Zanetti, 1596]; Kislak copy "item 3".

Kislak copy with early leather on wood binding; back board survives (missing front); traces of clasps; blind tooling. Spine missing; four raised bands survive.

CAJS Rare Folio copy imperfect: missing first leaf, and everything after l. Q5; margins heavily trimmed; stains and worming. Front board from a 19th century marbled binding survives; outer binding retained with book, from another book (17th century blind-tooled leather, on wood boards; traces of clasps; spine label with "לבוש").

CAJS Rare Folio copy formerly owned by Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning; Annenberg Research Institute (stamp).

CAJS Rare Folio copy formerly owned by the Hevreh Shas of Nyírbogát, Hungary, 1893 (stamp: "חברה ש"ס דק"ק נירבאגאט תרנ"ג").

Kislak copy with the stamp of Mosheh Halfin-Lifshitz (iron stamp on f. 28[khaf het]1r: "משה חלפין" under a crown; Halfin-Lifshitz (died 1831), book collector and scholar in Warsaw, Poland; father in .law of the Admorim of Kotzk (Menachem Mendel Morgensztern) and Gor (Yitzchak Meir Rotenberg-Alter)

Kislak copy inscribed by former owner Yitsḥaḳ ben Elḥanan, known as Zeligman Herrlein (inscription, title page verso: "'אני יצחק בר אלחנן שליט"א המכונה זעליגמן הרליי"; inscription circa 17th century).

Kislak copy formerly owned by Shemuʼel bar Yaʻaḳov Shimʻon, nephew of Yitsḥaḳ ben Elḥanan [Zeligman Herrlein], who received it from his uncle (inscription, final free-end: "שמואל בר יעקב שמעון ז"ל | זאת הספר נתן לי ה"ר הישיש [ה]זקן דודי ... הר"ר יצחק ב"ר אלחנן ז"ל"; inscription circa 17th century.

Kislak copy thereafter formerly owned by David ben Binyamin of Halberstadt, Germany (inscription, final free-end: "כל מקום שנאמר אלה פוסל את הראשונים נאום דוד בלא"א בנימין זצ"ל מק"ק הלברשטט").

Cited in:

Friedberg ʻAyin 330.

Habermann, A.M. Ha-madpis Yiśraʼel Zifroni..., in, Perakim be-toledot ha-madpisim ha-ʻIvriyim, 10

Steinschneider, M. Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 4898 : 11

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Basel 166

Related Work:

Ephraim Solomon ben Aaron, of Luntshits, 1550-1619. ʻIr giborim.

אפרים שלמה בן אהרן, מלונטשיץ. עיר גבורים.

OCLC:

23201326