[Leaf from Mishnah with Maimonides' commentary].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204, author of commentary.

Contributor:

Ibn Almoli, Nathaniel ben Joseph active 13th century, translator.

Soncino, Joshua Solomon, -1493, printer.

Talmid, Abraham ha-Sefardi, publisher.

Ibn Peso, Joseph, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Mishnah.

משנה.

Language:

Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Mishnah--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Mishnah.

Jewish law--Early works to 1800.

Jewish law.

Genre:

Incunabula -- Italy -- Naples -- 1492.

Penn Provenance:

Harrison, Sigmund (donor) (CJS Incunable copy)

Physical Description:

[1] leaf ; 30 cm (fol.)

Edition:

[First edition]

Other Title:

Title of work in Goff: משניות = Mishnayot (Comm: Maimonides)

Title of work in Incunabula short title catalogue: Mishna : Mishnayot (Comm: Maimonides)

Place of Publication:

[Naples] : [Joshua Solomon Soncino and Joseph ibn Peso] : [Abraham Talmid ha-Sefardi], [11 Iyar 5252, that is, 8 May 1492]

Language Note:

"The commentary translated from the Arabic [into Hebrew] by Judah ben Solomon Al-Harizi, Joseph ben Isaac Al-Fawwal, Jacob ben Moses ben Abbasi, Hayyim ben Solomon ben Baka, Solomon ben Joseph ben Jacob, Samuel ben Judah Ibn Tibbon, Nathanel ben Yosi ben Al-Mali, and an anonymous translator."--Iakerson.

Summary:

Leaf '29'8 (that is, folio [230]) of Mishnah with commentary by Maimonides (the extant portion translated into Hebrew by Nathaniel ben Joseph ibn Almoli), printed by Joshua Solomon Soncino with assistance from Abraham Talmid ha-Sefardi and Joseph ibn Peso (Naples, 1492).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

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

Imprint information from Iakerson (Hebrew date from Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum), following colophon on leaf '34'8v, which reads: נעשה בעזר ... אברהם תלמיד ספרדי ... ועמו נשתתפו בהוצאה ... יוסף אבן פיסו ... ואנכי ... יהושע שלמה איש שונצינו בעל המלאכה הזאת. והיתה השלמתו יו' ג יא לחדש אייר רנ"ב ... פה נאפולי.

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library identifies Abraham Talmid ha-Sefardi as the edition's publisher; Iakerson suggests "patron?".

Super-median folio, printed in double columns. Leaf '29'8r: 50[+] lines to a full column, plus headline (not extant); area of text: 233[+] x 170[+]mm; column width: 82 mm. The edition with signatures; without foliation or catchwords. "Occasionally anticipating letters of the first word of the next line have been 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.

Signatures (from Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum; in Hebrew numerals): 1-2⁸ 3¹⁰ 4-5⁸ 6⁶ 7-12⁸ 13-14⁶ 15-18⁸ 19¹⁰ 20-24⁸ 25⁶ 26⁸ 27¹⁰ 28-44⁸ 45⁶ (leaf '1'1 blank).

Printed in square and semi-cursive types; see Iakerson. "Initial words of the six sedarim in woodcut types"--Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

"47 woodcut diagrams in the text, 60 spaces left for diagrams"--Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Extant text: [השוחט את התודה בפנים ולחמה] חוץ לחומה until the final text of the folio (l. 228 in BAV copy), כמו שאמר ב[תחלת ההלכה] (recto); first line in Maimonides [אין מביאין] לכתחילה סל' until the end of the leaf; this text covers Mishnah Menaḥot VII:3 until the completion of VIII.

Local Notes:

CJS Incunable copy: leaf size: 301 x 197 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 1002S83 196/3" (housed in curatorial file).

CJS Incunable copy mutilated at head and fore-edges with some loss of text at head of each column and at fore-edge of outer columns; head and fore-edges darkened and charred ("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-82

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum XIII, page 59 (C.50.e.6)

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke M23779

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog M-410

Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables (CIBN), Heb-24

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library Heb-28

Incunabula short title catalogue im00624700

Iakerson, S. Catalogue of Hebrew incunabula, 60

Offenberg, A.K. Hebrew incunabula in public collections, 92

OCLC:

1354627583