Sefer ʻIḳarim / le-rabi Yosef Albo ha-Sefaradi.
ספר עקרים לרבי יוסף אלבו הספרדי.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albo, Joseph, active 15th century, author.

Contributor:

Soncino, Gershom, -1534, editor, printer.

שונצינו, גרשום בן משה.

Standardized Title:

Sefer ʻiḳarim

ספר עקרים

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jewish philosophy--Texts.

Jewish philosophy.

Judaism--Doctrines.

Judaism.

Genre:

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Annenberg Research Institute (stamp) (CJS Rare copy)

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

Yaʻaḳov Ḥayim Daṿid (autograph) (CJS Rare copy)

Physical Description:

[154] leaves [that is, [308] pages] ; 22 cm (4to)

Edition:

Nidpas shelishit mugah ṿe-ṭov [that is, third, proofed edition]

נדפס שלישית מוגה וטוב

Manufacture:

[Rimini] : ʻAl yede ha-tsaʻir mi-Bene Śontsino, shenat ḥameshet alafim 282 be-Medinat Iṭaliyah be-ʻir Remino [that is, 1521 or 1522]

[רמיני] : על ידי הצעיר מבני שונצינו, שנת חמשת אלפים רפ"ב במדינת איטליה בעיר רימינו

Notes:

Title, edition, and imprint from title page -- leaf [pi][one] recto; additional printer's colophon on leaf [lamed zayin][six] verso.

Habermann records an additional printing of the work previous to this printing.

Woodcut printer's device on title page (border around two-tiered tower, with locked arched door at bottom); text around device: "מגדל עוז שם יי' בו ירוץ צדיק ונשגב".

Errata preceding conspectus, authored by Don Salomone Galiti; see Manzoni.

Printer's introduction from the first edition, with the introduction from Israel Nathan Soncino; printer spelled "יירונימו איש שונצינו הנקרא מאז גרשם בהר"ר משה ז"ל" -- title page verso.

Printed in cursive type; captions, signatures, and paragraph headings printed in square type.

Woodcut headpiece -- leaf [alif][one] recto; "למה" in individual decorated woodblock letters, with two decorated head-pieces below and above, with adjoining woodcuts of two hares.

Signatures: [pi]⁴ [alif][one]-[lamed ṿaṿ]36⁴ [lamed zayin]37⁶ (gatherings signed in Hebrew numerals below columns and Arabic numerals above columns).

Local Notes:

CJS Rare copy imperfect: gatherings [pi], [alif][1] wanting; final leaf mostly missing, replaced with later paper; some staining and wear, with some wormholes on the first extant gathering.

CJS Rare copy formerly owned by the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate), RBR 2657 (pencil inscription); Annenberg Research Institute (stamp).

CJS Rare copy final leaf with paper inscribed with Psalms in an 18th century Ashkenazic cursive script.

CJS Rare copy bound in 19th century marbled boards, with a black linen spine; shelfmark pasted on spine, with text "עקרים רמיני רפ"ב" written in a square script.

CJS Rare copy inscribed with five tuǧras on pasted paper, final leaf: "הצ' חיים יעק‏ב‏ דוד", Yaʻaḳov Ḥayim Daṿid; circa 1750.

Cited in:

Habermann, A., Ha-madpisim bene Sontsino, 75 (pages 61-62)

Manzoni, G., Annali tipografici dei Soncino, 118

Steinschneider, M. Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 5882 : 4

Vinograd, Y., Otsar ha-Sefer ha-'Ivri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Rimini 4

OCLC:

1437903387