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Sefer Mivḥar ha-peninim : be-melitsat ha-ḥakhamim ha-ḳadmonim u-mishle filosofim ha-rishonim u-musaram u-mitsvotam ṿe-divrehem ṿe-ḥidotam be-khol ʻinyan she-adam tsarikh elaṿ be-ḥokhmah ube-musar ube-derekh erets / mesudar le-sheʻarim bekhol ʻinyanim. ʻim pirusho.
ספר מבחר הפינינים : במליצת החכמים הקדמונים ומשלי פילוסופים הראשונים ומוסרם ומצותם ודבריהם וחידותם בכל ענין שאדם צריך אליו בחכמה ובמוסר ובדרך ארץ / מסודר לשערים בכל ענינים. עם פירושו.
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Mivḥar ha-peninim.
- מבחר הפנינים.
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Aphorisms and apothegms.
- Jewish ethics--Early works to 1800.
- Jewish ethics.
- Aphorisms and Proverbs as Topic.
- aphorisms.
- Medical Subjects:
- Aphorisms and Proverbs as Topic.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Kestenbaum & Company, sale 76 (June 2018), lot 166.
- Formerly owned by Jonas Billitzer, a rabbi in Debrecen, Hungary (stamps on free-ends and title). Text of stamp: "Jonas Billitzer Rabbiner Debreczen".
- Formerly owned by Benedit Sheir ha-levi Dryfus, Hamburg. The complete inscription reads: "שייך להאלוף הקצין הרב כהר"ר בענדיט שייאר סג"ל - Benedict Hertz Dryfus, gang (?) Hamburg, Dryfuss -- Monseiur", approximately 1800.
- Formerly owned by brothers Menahem b. Asher and Avraham b. Asher (inscription, written in a German Ashkenazic hand, approximately 1750). Asher was alive at the time of writing (the meaning of the word שליט"א, an acronym for שיחיה לאורך ימים טובים ארוכים, may he live long and good days, is written for someone still alive) and inscribes the volume as Asher b. Shim'on, and Shim'on inscribes the volume as well.
- Formerly owned by Asher ben Shim'on (inscription on title); Asher was the father of Menahem and Avraham, and the son of Shim'on, all whom inscribed the title page. Full text of the inscription: "שלי זה הספר אמריו שפר כהר"ר אשר בן א"א מהור"ר שמעון שלי'".
- Formerly owned by Shim'on, who was the father of Asher, grandfather of Menahem and Avraham, all whom inscribed this volume; Germany, approximately 1700.
- Physical Description:
- 84 leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
- 84 דפים ; 20 cm (4°)
- Place of Publication:
- [Ṿenetsiʼah] : ʻal yede Ḳornilyo Adil Ḳind, 306 [1546]
- ויניציאה : על ידי קורנילייו אדיל קינד, ש״ו [1546]
- Summary:
- This is a volume of three works printed 1545-6 in Venice by Cornelius Adelkind; the first work is the Mivḥar ha-peninim attributed to R. Solomon ibn Gabirol (Málaga 1021 - Valencia 1070) and is comprised of aphorisms and philosophical apothegms; this work was first printed at Soncino in 1484 by Joshua Solomon b. Israel Soncino. The second work is the Beḥinat ʻolam by R. Yedidiah ha-Bedershi (Béziers? 1270s? - Perpignan? Montpellier? 1340?), also a philosophic work on themes of futility and vanity; this volume was first printed at Mantua by Estellina Conat, approximately 1476. The third work is Even boḥen by R. Kalonymus b. Kalonymus of Arles (1286-7 - 1328?) on ethics and rebuke; it was first printed at Naples in 1489 by Joseph Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser.
- Notes:
- Imprint information is from the colophon.
- Original paginations runs through each of the three works printed as issued.
- Signatures: 1-22⁴ (signature marks in Hebrew and Arabic numerals).
- Even boḥen (the third work) is followed by a numbered summary of the work.
- The completion of Mivḥar ha-peninim was in Shevaṭ 1545 (from the colophon note on 40 verso). The completion of the entire volume was Purim 1546 (note at end of the volume).
- Mivḥar ha-peninim and Beḥinot ʻolam are printed in a single column of wide lines; Even boḥen is printed in double-columns.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rare Judaica Acquisitions Fund.
- Cited in:
- Vinograd, Otsar, Venice 271
- Steinschneider, 6916 : 2
- Benjakob, Otsar, mem 329
- Vinograd, Otsar, Venice 271.
- Steinschneider, 6916 : 2.
- Benjakob, Otsar, mem 329.
- OCLC:
- 122773997
- Online:
- Footprints
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