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Shulḥan ʻArukh mi-Ṭur [...] / ḥibro ... Yosef Ḳaro ; ʻim ḥidushe dinim harbeh meʼod mi-diḳduḳe sofrim ha-rishonim ve-aḥaronim she-hishmiṭ ha-gaʼon Ḳaro za.l. ve-hemtsiam ha-gaʼon Mosheh Iserles.
שלחן ערוך מטור [...] \ חברו ... יוסף קארו ; עם חדושי דינים הרבה מאד מדקדוקי סופרים הראשונים ואחרונים שהשמיט הגאון קארו ז"ל והמציאם הגאון משה איסרליס.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection folio BM520.88 A2 1593 vols. 1,2,3,4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim, 1488-1575, author.
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish law--Texts.
- Jewish law.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Hoḳfeld, Asher Lemel (autograph) (Kislak copy)
- Binyamin (autograph) (Kislak copy)
- Ṿeyśer, David, orphans of (inscription) (Kislak copy)
- Annenberg Research Institute (former owner) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)
- Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (former owner) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)
- Yehoshua Heschel ben Aharon, of Prömsel (CAJS Rare Folio copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes ; 29 cm (fol.)
- Edition:
- Nidpas paʻam shelishit [that is, third edition]
- נדפס פעם שלישית
- Manufacture:
- Nidpas paʻam shelishit taḥat memshelet ... ha-melekh Zigmond yar.h... poh ḳ.ḳ. Ḳrako [Kraków, Poland] : [Isaac ben Aaron Prostitz], , [1593-1594], ha-r. Yitsḥaḳ ben ha-ḥ.r. Aharon za.l. ha-meḥoḳeḳeḳ mi-Prostits
- נדפס פעם שלישית תחת ממשלת אדוננו ... המלך זיגמונד יר"ה... פה קראקא : ה"ר יצח"ק בן אהרן ז"ל המחוקק מפרוסטיץ י"ץ
- Notes:
- Third edition of Moses Isserles' Mapah.
- Each volume with individual title page; title pages inside architechtural woodcut frame (decorated round arch; cherubs; upper-center vignette depicting the Sacrifice of Isaac (possibly Isaac Prostitz's printer's emblem); two charioteering angels at upper cornices).
- Woodcut decorated initials.
- Printed in cursive type; Karo's Shulḥan ʻArukh printed larger than Isserles' Mapah. Each volume with conspectus following text.
- Reigning monarch mentioned in imprint: Sigismund III Vasa, King of Poland and Sweden (1566-1632).
- Print dates: v.1: 10 Sivan-29 Tamuz 5354 [29 May-17 July 1594] ; v.2: 10 Sivan-4 Elul 5354 [29 May-20 August 1594] ; v.3 : begun 3 Heshvan 5354 [29 October 1593] ; v.4: 1 Tamuz 5353-3 Tishre 5354 [1 July-29 September 1593].
- Signatures: v.1: 1[alif]-17[yud zayin]⁶ 18[yud ḥet]⁸ ; v.2: 1[alif]-19[yud ṭet]⁶ ; v.3: 1[alif]-11[yud alif]⁶ ; v.4: 1[alif]-22[khaf bet]⁴ 23[khaf gimel]⁴.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak copy complete in four volumes; Penn Libraries Accession no. 102010 (June 1899). Volumes 1 and 2 bound in 19th century marbled boards, with linen spines; volumes 3 and 4 bound in black buckram. Volume 1 title page bound-in backward. Number 102010. Buckram rebound volumes by Curt Gaebel & Sons, Holland, PA.
- CAJS Rare Folio copy formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning; Annenberg Research Institute.
- CAJS Rare Folio copy volumes 2 and 3 only, bound in one. Bound in a black buckram binding.
- CAJS Rare Folio copy formerly owned by Elyah ben Yosef Segel ("זה הספר שלי נאו' אליה בן יוסף סגל").
- CAJS Rare Folio copy formerly owned by Yehoshua Heschel ben Aharon of Prömsel (today Przemyśl, Poland; inscription, title page: "יהושע העשיל בן אהרן זיע"א מפרעמשלא"; inscription circa 17th century).
- CAJS Rare copy with handwritten book curses on title page verso; owner's name effaced.
- Kislak copy inscribed by former owners: v.2, final folio, verso ("אשר לעמל" "בנימין ..."); v.3, final folio, recto ("...להיתומים דוד וועישר" "כהר"ר אברהם"), title page, verso ("...אשר לעמל בא"א... הקפעלד"); v.4 with handwritten table of contents, final folio, verso.
- Cited in:
- Ben-Menahem, Naftali. Ha-defusim ha-rishonim shel ha-Shulḥan ʻArukh, 14
- Steinschneider, M. Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 5940 : 10
- Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Cracow 163
- Contains:
- Isserles, Moses ben Israel, approximately 1525-1572. Mapah.
- איסרליס, משה. המפה.
- OCLC:
- 34091478
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