Sefer Yefeh toʼar : bi-meḥugah Elohit, me-toʼeret ... / yeḳar tifʼeret gedulat ha-mehạber ... Shemuʼel Yafeh Ashkenazi ze.tsa.l., asher hayah peʼer hador ṿe-hadaro be-ʻir ha-ʻadinah Ḳośṭanṭinah.
ספר יפה תאר : במחוגה אלהית, מתוארת ... יקר תפארת גדולת המחבר... שמואל יפה אשכנזי זצ"ל, אשר היה פאר הדור והדרו בעיר העדינה קושטנטינה.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashkenazi, Samuel Jaffe ben Isaac, active 16th century, author.

Tselaḥ, Avraham ben Shabtai, author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Library at the Katz Center Special Collections (University of Pennsylvania)

Ashkenazi, Isaac Jaffe ben Samuel, editor, publisher.

Ashkenazi, Joseph Jaffe ben Samuel, -1631, editor, publisher.

Gershon, Isaac, active 1576-1620, editor, corrector.

Tam ibn Yaḥya ben Gedaliah, publisher.

Pardo, Yosef, active 16th centurym, editor.

Di Gara, Giovanni, active 1564-1610, printer.

אשכנזי, יצחק יפה בן שמואל.

אשכנזי, יוסף יפה.

גרשון, יצחק.

תם ן' יחייא.

פארדו, יוסף.

צלח, אברהם בן שבתי.

די גארא, זואן

Standardized Title:

מדרש רבה. בראשית. שנ"ז (ויניציאה)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Midrash rabbah. Genesis--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Midrash rabbah.

Bible. Genesis--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Bible.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Texts.

Early works.

tuǧras.

Penn Provenance:

Annenberg Research Institute (CAJS Rare Folio copy 1) (CAJS Rare Folio copy 2)

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate) (CAJS Rare Folio copy 1) (CAJS Rare Folio copy 2)

Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (New York, N.Y.) (bookplate) (CAJS Rare Folio copy 1)

Offenbach Archival Depot (stamp) (CAJS Rare Folio copy 1)

Pohl, Johannes (inscription) (CAJS Rare Folio copy 1)

Rosaneś, Daṿid (inscription) (CAJS Rare Folio copy 2)

Physical Description:

540 leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)

Manufacture:

Nidpas ba-ʻir Vẹnetsyah ha-mehulalah : ʻal yede Zoan De-Garah ha-madpis, [5357-6 Elul 5366, that is, between 1597 and 8 September 1606]

נדפס בעיר ויניציאה המהוללה : על ידי זואן דגארה המדפיס, ותהי ראשית מלאכתו בשנת ו'נ'ש'א' נס וגו' ואסף נדחי ישראל ; ותהי השלמתו ביום ו' כ' לחודש אלול שס"ו

Notes:

First printed in Constantinople, 1587; Exodus and Leviticus Rabbah printed in 1657; Numbers and Deuteronomy never printed -- see Benayahu.

Edited by Isaac Gershon -- title page; additionally edited by Yosef Pardo, and financed by Tham Aben Yachya -- postscript.

Commentary printed in small, cursive type, in two columns.

Introduction of the author, and introduction by rabbis of Constantinople, undersigned; additional verses by sons of the author.

Date of completion -- colophon.

With a postscript by Avraham ben Shabtai Tsalaḥ.

Signatures: 1-90⁶.

Title page with decorated woodcut versals (יפה תאר); three crowns (printer's device).

Published, edited, and added to with eulogies, by Samuel's sons Joseph and Isaac Jaffe Ashkenazi; title page ("וחיי אריכי יוסיף מן שמיא לשלמים בניו אחריו התחזקו התאמצו להשלים על המלאכה כי ר'ב'ה' היא על האדם").

Local Notes:

CAJS Rare Folio two copies.

CAJS Rare Folio copy 1 complete. Bound in an early leather binding, with blind-tooled lines, gilt-stamped, and center panel with gilt ornaments; spine with four raised bands.

CAJS Rare Folio copies 1 and 2 formerly owned by the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate); copy 1 formerly RBR 3248; Annenberg Research Institute.

CAJS Rare Folio copy 1 with the bookplate of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction; Offenbach Archival Depot ("desinf. Lk. SEPT. 45"); with catalog bookplate written by Johannes Pohl ("242. ASCHKENASI SAMUEL YAFFE "YEFEH TOAR" U. MIDRASCH "BERESCHIT RABBA" Venedig 1597 1080 Seit[en] J. POHL").

CAJS Rare Folio copy 2 imperfect: missing the first page (supplied in manuscript, Eastern European, circa 19th century); first and final folios heavily taped. Rebound in a blue buckram binding.

CAJS Rare Folio copy 1 with a manuscript purchase note, purchased for 8 Piedmontese lire (?) circa 17th-early 18th century inscription: "ברוך אתה... שזכני וחנני לקנות הספר הקדוש בעד ח' ליט' מטבע פיימונטי וכן יהי רצון מלכינו יתברך יחונני אתכן חנני...".

CAJS Rare Folio copy 2 with the tuǧra signature of Daṿid Rosanes (below colophon; "הצ' דוד רוזאניש" approximately 17th century).

Cited in:

Habermann, A.M. Ha-madpis Zoan de Gara u-reshimat bet defuso, 169

Habermann, A.M. Ha-madpis Yiśraʼel Zifroni u-veno Elishamaʻ, 35

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Venice 835

Steinschneider, M. Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana 3770

Publications about:

Benayahu, M. R. Samuel Yaffe Ashkenazi and Other Commentators of "Midrash Rabba", in Tarbiz, 42 (3-4) / Nisan-Elul 5733, p. 430

Contains:

Midrash rabbah. Genesis. 1597 (Venice, Italy)

מדרש רבה. בראשית. שנ"ז (ויניציאה)

OCLC:

1323802606