Otiyot shel Rabi ʻAḳiva z.ts.l. : zeh ha-ḥibur ha-meyusad u-metuḳan ʻal seder ha-alfa beta uve-khol ot ṿe-ot meforash bo sodot ṿe-ḥidushim ʻal pi ha-Ḳabalah ha-amitit ka-asher nizkar be-luaḥ seder simane ha-otiyot.
אותיות של רבי עקיבא זצ״ל :

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Akiba ben Joseph, approximately 50-approximately 132, attributed name, author.

Yitsḥak ben Aharon, mi-Prosṭits, printer.

Standardized Title:

Otiyyot de-Rabbi Akiva. 1579 (Kraków, Poland)

אותיות דרבי עקיבא. של"ט (קראקא)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Alphabet--Religious aspects--Judaism--Early works to 1800.

Alphabet.

Midrash--Texts.

Midrash.

Genre:

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Annenberg Research Institute (stamp) (CAJS Rare copy)

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

Leeser Library (stamp) (CAJS Rare copy)

Leeser, Isaac (former owner) (CAJS Rare copy)

Cardonnel, P. de, (Pierre), -1667 (autograph) (CAJS Rare copy)

Physical Description:

24 leaves ; 18 cm (4to)

Edition:

ʻIm tosefet marʼeh maḳom meha-pesuḳim ... hidpasnu me-ḥadash [that is, new expanded edition].

עם תוספת מראה מקום מהפסוקים... הדפסנו מחדש

Manufacture:

Poh ḳ.ḳ. Ḳraḳa, asher hi taḥat memshelet ha-melekh ... Śṭefanus yar.h. ṿe-hadaro... : [Isaac ben Aaron of Prostitz], hutḥal yom 5 19 Elul 5339 [that is, 20 September 1579]

פה ק"ק קראקא, אשר היא תחת ממשלת המלך ... שטעפנוס יר"ה והדרו... : יצחק בן אהרן פרוסטיץ, הותחל יום ה' י"ט אלול השל"ט

Other Title:

Sefer Otiyot shel Rabi ʻAḳiva.

Notes:

Bold type on title page.

Reigning monarch on title page -- Stefan Batory, King of Poland, 1533-1586.

Printed in two columns.

Printed by Isaac ben Aaron of Prostitz; see Vinograd.

Signatures: [alif]1-[vav]6⁴.

Local Notes:

CAJS Rare copy formerly owned by the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate), RBR 2423 (inscription); Annenberg Research Institute (stamp).

CAJS Rare copy complete. Rebound (modern blue buckram, with gilt text on spine -- "אותיות של רבי עקיבא קראקא של"ט K").

CAJS Rare copy formerly owned by the Leeser Library Hebrew Education Society (stamp, last page).

CAJS Rare copy formerly owned by merchant, printer, book collector, and poet Pierre de Cardonnel (Caen, France, 1614- London 1667; inscription, title page: "x Bibl. Petr. deCardonnel 1645"; Cardonnel was a peer to William Cavendish, the Third Earl of Devonshire, and likely knew Thomas Hobbes; see his biography and literary activity in Malcolm, Noel, 'Pierre de Cardonnel (1614-1667), Merchant, Printer, Poet, and Reader of Hobbes', Aspects of Hobbes (Oxford, 2002), pages 259–316.

CAJS Rare copy with early inscription in Latin, possibly in Orléans, France (title page: "Flor. Hebrae. Aurel. ...").

Cited in:

Steinschneider, M. Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 3397

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Books), Cracow 55

OCLC:

778249116