[Six leaves from Pentateuch with Megillot and Haftarot].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alantansi, Eliezer ben Abraham, active 15th century, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Bible. Pentateuch. Hebrew. 1487.

Language:

Hebrew

Genre:

Incunabula -- Spain -- Híjar -- 1487.

Vellum printings.

Penn Provenance:

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. Library (former owner) (CJS Incunable copy)

Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923 (donor) (CJS Incunable copy)

Physical Description:

[6] leaves ; 24 cm

Contained In:

[Sephardic Pentateuch]. 31198068710081

Other Title:

Title of work in Incunabula short title catalogue: Biblia Hebraica : Pentateuch : Torah, Megillot, Haftarot

Title of work in Goff: תורה עם הפטרות וחמש מגלות = Pentateuch with Megillot and Haftarot

Place of Publication:

[Híjar] : [Eliezer ben Abraham Alantansi], [1487-1488?]

Summary:

Leaves [14]1-[14]3 and [14]6-[14]8 (that is, folios [105]-[107] and [110]-[112]), printed on parchment, from Pentateuch with Megillot and Haftarot (Híjar: Eliezer ben Abraham Alantansi, 1487-1488?). These leaves were first identified by Alexander Marx (letter, Joseph Reider to Alexander Marx, February 10, 1932, housed in the Library at Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies files).

Notes:

Title devised by cataloger from content.

Parchment quarto, printed in double columns (the edition primarily printed thus). Leaf [14]1r: leaf size: 242 x 185 mm; 27 lines to a full column; area of text: 180 x 131 mm; column width: 59 mm. "Signatures: numbering of the bifolia in the first quire only"--Iakerson. The edition is without foliation or catchwords. Rubrication not called for.

"Examination of the [National Library of Israel] paper copy proves that this is a quarto (4ᵒ) edition"—Iakerson, giving collation: [1]-[16]⁸ [17]⁶ [18]-[24]⁸. (The Needham Calculator suggests Super-Median or Royal quarto paper.)

Printed in square types without vocalization or accents. See Iakerson.

The edition contains woodcut borders, initials, and decorative elements; woodcut printer's device (A. Yaari, Hebrew printers' marks, 3) on leaves [17]5v and [24]8v (that is, folios [133]v and [190]v). See Iakerson.

Imprint information from Incunabula short title catalogue. "Fol. 190v, l. 5, colophon, with an acrostic of the printer's name: אלאנתאנסי אליעזר בן אברהם."--Iakerson.

Local Notes:

CJS Incunable copy bound with: [Sephardic Pentateuch]. [Spain], [between 1300 and 1350]. (Leaves [14]1-[14]3 bound in after manuscript folio 134; leaves [14]6-[14]8 bound in after manuscript folio 143.)

CJS Incunable copy has a few early manuscript marginal notes; early manuscript vocalization with accents of text. Leaves [14]1-[14]3 foliated "135"-"137" and leaves [14]6-[14]8 "144"-"146", respectively, in modern manuscript in pencil.

CJS Incunable copy donated to the Library of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning from the collection of Mayer Sulzberger before 1932.

Cited in:

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, Heb-14

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke M30628

Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables (CIBN), Heb-5

Incunabula short title catalogue ib00525600

Iakerson, S. Catalogue of Hebrew incunabula, 95

Offenberg, A.K. Hebrew incunabula in public collections, 15

Steinschneider, M. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 1011a

OCLC:

1400200063