[Leaf from Mitsṿot ha-gadol].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moses ben Jacob, of Coucy, active 13th century, author.

Contributor:

Soncino, Gershom, -1534, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Commandments, Six hundred and thirteen--Early works to 1800.

Commandments, Six hundred and thirteen.

Genre:

Incunabula -- Italy -- Soncino -- 1488.

incunabula (books)

fragments (object portions)

Penn Provenance:

Harrison, Sigmund (donor) (CJS Incunable copy)

Physical Description:

[1] leaf ; 32 cm (fol.)

Edition:

[Second edition]

Manufacture:

[Soncino] : [Gershom Soncino], [15 Ṭevet 5249, that is, 19 December 1488]

Summary:

Leaf '7'2 (that is, folio [50]) of Mitsṿot ha-gadol by Moses ben Jacob of Coucy, printed by Gershom Soncino (Soncino, 19 December 1488).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Edition statement from Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Place of printing and printer's name from Incunabula short title catalogue; date of printing from Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf '7'2r: 48 lines to a full column; area of text: 216 x 141 mm; column width: 66 mm. With signatures; without foliation. "Irregular use of a few catchwords on the rectos and the versos, usually as last word of the bottom line. Occasionally anticipating letters from the first word of the next line have bene filled in at the end of the line 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; in Hebrew numerals): 1-12⁸ 13⁶, ²1-21⁸ 22¹⁰ (leaf '1'1 blank).

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

The edition contains woodcut initials (none present on this leaf). See Iakerson.

Extent of surviving text in Negative Commandment 132: ואת הבנים תקח לך (recto top line) until שיש טעמי ד שדורש שם איסור ועוד שאם.

Local Notes:

CJS Incunable copy: leaf size: 311 x 209 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: Original call tag number from Harrison: "Harrison 1802S83 196/3" (housed in curatorial file).

CJS Incunable copy dampstained; tears at all edges; cut in fore-edge margin; a few holes with minimal damage to text.

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

Cited in:

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, Heb-85

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum XIII, 45 (C.50.c.9)

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke M25532

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library Heb-13, Heb-14

Incunabula short title catalogue im00866240

Iakerson, S. Catalogue of Hebrew incunabula, 36

Offenberg, A.K. Hebrew incunabula in public collections, 95

Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 6453:2

OCLC:

1354788263