[Leaf from Mishneh Torah].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204, author.

Contributor:

Obadiah ben Moses, printer.

Solomon ben Judah, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jewish law--Early works to 1800.

Jewish law.

Incunabula--Specimens.

Incunabula.

Genre:

Incunabula -- Italy -- 1473-1475.

incunabula (books)

fragments (object portions)

Penn Provenance:

Harrison, Sigmund (donor) (CJS Incunable copy)

Physical Description:

[1] leaf ; 28 cm (fol.)

Other Title:

Title of work in Goff: משנה תורה = Mishneh Torah (Codification of Talmudic laws)

Place of Publication:

[Italy] : [Solomon ben Judah, Obadiah ben Moses], [approximately 1473-1475]

Summary:

Leaf [15]1 (that is, folio [113]) of Moses Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, printed by Solomon ben Judah and Obadiah ben Moses (Italy, approximately 1473-1475).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Imprint information from Incunabula short title catalogue, which also gives: Rome, about 1480. "On the date and place of printing, see A.K. Offenberg, in The Library 6th ser., 8 (1986) p. 72"--Incunabula short title catalogue.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum gives place and date of printing: Town unidentified, about 1475. Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke and Iakerson give: Italy (Rome?), about 1475.

Royal folio, printed in double columns. Leaf [15]1v: 62 lines to a full column (56 extant); area of text: 274[+] x 145[+] mm (Iakerson gives: 301/2 x 193/4 mm); column width: 83 mm. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords. "Much spacing to produce even line endings"--Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum. Rubrication not called for.

Signatures (from Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum): [1]-[18]¹⁰ [19]⁴ [20-[23]¹⁰ [24]⁸ [25]¹⁰ [26]⁶ [27]¹⁰ [28]¹² [29]-[33]¹⁰ [34]¹² [33]-[36]¹⁰ (leaves [1]1, [19]4, [28]12, and [34]11-[34]12 blanks).

Printed in square types. See Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum and Iakerson.

The edition contains woodcuts: "Three schematic illustrations of phylacteries on leaf 34b ([4].4b)."--Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Leaf mutilated at head, fore- and tail edges with outer column largely wanting and some text at beginning and end of inner column wanting. Extant text of inner column on recto begins: בלא כתובה. Extant text of inner column on verso begins: והחבל והכפיפה; column ends: עליה דרך איברין - פרק רביעי. For the complete leaf, see Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Inc. S.203 (digi.vatlib.it/view/Inc.S.203, viewed 2 October 2023).

Local Notes:

CJS Incunable copy: leaf size: 282 x 183 mm.

CJS Incunable copy: Gift of Sigmund Harrison to Annenberg Research Institute, September 24, 1986 (appraisal of complete gift at LKCAJS on file).

CJS Incunable copy has laid in paper slip with manuscript bibliographical notes in ink (now orange).

CJS Incunable copy darkened and charred at mutilated outer edges ("fire damaged"--appraisal notes).

CJS Incunable copy: leaf affixed to a black paper frame with clear tape.

Cited in:

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, Heb-76

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum XIII, 12 (C.50.e.10)

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke M20027

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library Heb-2

Incunabula short title catalogue im00079400

Iakerson, S. Catalogue of Hebrew incunabula, 72

Offenberg, A.K. Hebrew incunabula in public collections, 87

Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 6513:1

OCLC:

1354948263