Sefer ha-Roḳeaḥ / asher yasad ha-rav rabenu Elʻazar ben rabenu Yehudah z.ts.l. ; mugah ʻim rov ha-diyuḳ ʻal yad ... Yehudah Yaʻaleh Ish Pizaro Ts.b.Y.
ספר הרוקח אשר יסד אלעזר בן יהודה ; מוגה עם רוב הדיוק על יד יהודה יעלה איש פיזרו צב"י.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eleazar ben Judah, of Worms, approximately 1176-1238, author.

Contributor:

Soncino, Gershom, -1534, printer.

שונצינו, גרשום בן משה.

Standardized Title:

Roḳeaḥ

רוקח

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jewish ethics--Early works to 1800.

Jewish ethics.

Judaism--Customs and practices--Early works to 1800.

Judaism.

Jewish law--Early works to 1800.

Jewish law.

Penn Provenance:

Annenberg Research Institute (stamp) (CJS Rare copy)

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate) (CJS Rare copy)

Mosheh Yedidiah of Siena (inscription) (CJS Rare copy)

Ascoli, Shelomoh (inscription) (CJS Rare copy)

Shemu'el (inscription) (CJS Rare copy)

Physical Description:

[2], [108] leaves [that is, 4, 216 pages] ; 29 cm (fol.)

Edition:

[first edition]

Manufacture:

be-ʻir Fano : [Gershom Soncino], be-ʻErev Pesaḥ shenat [5]265 [29 March 1505]

בעיר פאנו : [גרשום שונצינו], ערב פסח שנת רס"ה

Other Title:

Roḳeaḥ

רוקח

Notes:

Imprint from colophon; printer information from Steinschneider.

First Hebrew book printed with a title page -- see Heller.

Last leaf blank.

Edited by "יהודה יעלה איש פיזרו" -- title page.

Signatures: pi² alif-yod ḥet ⁶.

Local Notes:

CJS Rare copy imperfect: lacking the final blank leaf (yod ḥet [6]).

CJS Rare copy worn on first leaves; evidence of staining and water damage; leaf [pi][1] partially separated from book gutter; final folio darkened from water damage.

CJS Rare copy formerly owned by Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate), "RBR 2251" (inscription); subsequently Annenberg Research Institute (stamp).

CJS Rare copy formerly owned by Shelomoh Ascoli (or D'Ascoli), purchased from Shemu'el (receipt inscription on title page: [...] ספר הרוקח נקרא כשרון (?) אני ר' שמואל אשר לקחתי [...] לעולם יהיה אדם יכתב שמו על ספרו שמא יבא וירכשם [...] שלמה יצ' אסקולי מידי נוהג וזה איגרות קבלה".

CJS Rare copy formerly owned by Mosheh Yedidiah of Siena (?) (inscription: "קניין כספי משה ידידיה מסינה").

Cited in:

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri, Fano 12

Heller, M., The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book, page 11

Steinschneider, M., Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 4924 : 6.

Vinograd, Y., Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book, Fano 12

OCLC:

882554434