Perush ha-Torah / le-rav rabenu Mosheh bar Naḥman za.l. Gerondi ze.tsa.l.
פירוש התורה להרב רבינו משה ב״ר נחמן ז"ל גירונדי זצ"ל.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naḥmanides, approximately 1195-approximately 1270, author.

Contributor:

Soncino, Gershom, -1534, printer.

שונצינו, גרשום בן משה.

Standardized Title:

Perush ha-Torah. 1514 (Pesaro, Italy)

פרוש התורה. 1514 (פיסארו, איטליה)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Bible. Pentateuch--Commentaries.

Bible.

Bible. Pentateuch.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Irosolimitano, Dominico (inscription) (censor) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)

Scipione, Allesandro (inscription) (censor) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)

Physical Description:

[178] leaves ; 27 cm (fol.)

Edition:

[Fourth edition].

Manufacture:

Ṿe-hayta ḥaḳiḳato ba-ʻir Pizaro asher bi-medinat Iṭaliyah, taḥat memshelet ha-adon ha-yashar Fratsiśḳo Mariah, Dukos Orbino u-Mesera u-Perfeḳṭo me-Romi ṿe-khu. ... : Anaḥnu tseʻire ha-meḥoḳeḳim Bene Śontsino, hitḥalnu bi-melekhet ha-maʼor ... ba-yom rishon la-ḥodesh Ṭevet [5]274 le-f.ḳ., ṿe-hishlamnu oto ha-yom she-hu sheloshah la-ḥodesh Siṿan [5]274 le-f.ḳ. [that is, begun on 10 December 1513, and completed 7 June 1514]

והיתה חקיקתו בעיר פיזרו אשר במדינת איטליה, תחת ממשלת האדון פראצישקו מריאה דוכוס אורבינו ומסורא ופירפיקטו מרומי וכו' : אנחנו צעירי בני שונצינו, התחלנו במלאכת המאור ... ביום ראשון לחדש טבת ערד לפ"ק והשלמנו אותו היום שהוא שלשה לחדש סיון ערד לפ"ק

Notes:

Edition supplied by cataloger; three earlier incunabula editions (Rome 1470?, Lisbon 1489, and Naples or Piove di Sacco? 1490).

Signatures: [alif]⁸ [bet]-[gimel]⁶ [cursive alif]-[cursive tet]⁶ [yod]⁶ [cursive yod alif]-[cursive yod zayin]⁶ [cursive yod het]⁸ [cursive yod tet]-[cursive khaf bet]⁶ [cursive khaf daled]-[cursive khaf heh]⁶ [cursive khaf vav]⁶⁽⁻⁶⁾.

Woodcut letters and two headpieces -- l. [alif]2r (text: "ספר בראשית"); printed in two columns; catchwords on versos.

Decorated frame around l. [alif]1v; floral patterns draped around urns and vessels (similar to other printed items by Soncino); leaf begins גר אנכי בארץ... (Ps. LXIX, 19); colophon and imprint below.

Local Notes:

Vinograd Pesaro 34

CAJS Rare Folio copy imperfect: missing leaves [alif]1; [alif]3; [alif]8; [bet]6; and [cursive khaf vav]1. Censorship evidence includes lines, words, and letters crossed through in ink.

CAJS Rare Folio copy formerly owned by the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate), RBR 2278; Annenberg Research Institute (stamp).

CAJS Rare Folio copy rebound: blue library buckram with gilt title on spine; gilt text "רמב"ן | פירוש התורה Eda פיזרו רע"ד"; printed floral endpapers.

CAJS Rare Folio copy with censor inscription of Dominico Irosolimitano (final page; Venice, Mantua, Ferrara, 1578-1619; Popper 62).

CAJS Rare Folio copy with censor inscription of Allesandro Scipione (final page; Mantuan censor, 1580-1590; Popper 35).

Cited in:

Deinard, E. 'Atikot Yehudah, 1961

Habermann, A. Ha-madpisim Bene Soncino, 15

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Pesaro 34

Steinschneider, M. Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 6532 : 51

Yudlov, I. Ginze Yisra'el, 673

OCLC:

155826153