Sefer ha-ʻIṭur : ... poseḳ ḳadmon be-dine mamonot, be-dine Ḳidushin, be-dine Giṭin uve-dine Ketubot.
ספר העיטור : ... פוסק קדמון בדיני ממונות בדיני קדושין בדיני גיטין ובדיני כתובות.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Isaac ben Abba Mari, active 12th century, author.

Contributor:

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

Early Hebrew Titles Project Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Seruḳ, Yosef, publisher.

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

סרוק, יוסף.

Standardized Title:

Sefer ha-ʻiṭur. 5368 (1607/1608 : Venice, Italy)

ספר העיטור. שס"ח (ויניציאה)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jewish law--Early works to 1800.

Jewish law.

Genre:

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Annenberg Research Institute (stamp) (Libra Katz Rare copy)

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate) (Libra Katz Rare copy)

Romano, Mercado (Ḥayim Yiśraʼel) (-1912) (binding stamp) (Libra Katz Rare copy)

Physical Description:

110 leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)

Edition:

[First edition].

Manufacture:

Nidpas poh Ṿenetsyah : Be-vet Yoani de Garah, shenat [5]368 le-f.ḳ. [that is, 1607 or 1608] = Con licentia de' Superiori

נדפס פה ויניציאה : בבית יואני די גארה, שנת שס"ח לפ"ק

Place of Publication:

[Venice, Italy] : Zakhrah Elohim le-ṭovah el ke.r.r. Yosef ben Seruḳ ze.tsa.l., asher hotsi maʻot me-kiso kede le-hadpiso, [1607 or 1608].

ויניציאה : זכרה אלהים לטובה אל כר"ר יוסף בן סרוק זצ"ל, אשר הוציא מעות מכיסו כדי להדפיסו, שס"ח.

Summary:

First edition of the Sefer ha-ʻiṭur, by Isaac ben Abba Mari of Marseilles.

Notes:

Title page printed inside woodcut architectural frame; reigning monarch mentioned in imprint -- Leonardo Donato (1536-1612).

Signatures: [alif]1-[yud zayin]17⁶ [yud ḥet]18⁸ .

Architectural border on title page.

Local Notes:

Libra Katz Rare copy complete. Bound in a leather binding, with black marbled endpapers, circa 19th century; an index leaf from Escapa, Joseph. Sefer Rosh Yosef (Izmir : Yedidyah Gabai, 5418 (1657 or 1658)) bound in at back.

Libra Katz Rare copy formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate), RBR 3086; Annenberg Research Institute (stamp).

Libra Katz Rare copy formery owned by Ḥayim Yiśraʼel Romano (binding stamp: "חיים ישראל רומאנו הי"ו"; known as Mercado Romano, a philanthropist and supporter of Torah scholars in Istanbul and Turkey, active during the late 19th - early 20th century and who lived in the Bağlarbaşı neighborhood of Istanbul; among his philanthropical projects were the composition and printing of Ḥayyim Hezekiah Medini's Śede ḥemed, and his building of the Hebron synagogue Bet Romano).

Cited in:

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Venice 1041

Steinschneider, M. Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 5291 : 1

OCLC:

766180496