Perush ʻal ha-Torah / she-ḥiber he-ḥakham ha-shalem Rabi Avraham Sabaʻ ṿe-ḳara shemo Tseror ha-mor ; meyusad ʻal peshaṭ ha-Torah u-ḳetsato ʻal derekh ha-nistar u-maʼamre sefer ha-Zohar ṿe-ḳabalah ṿe-ʻinyanim aḥerim mi-divre Razal.
פירוש על התורה שחיבר החכם השלם רבי אברהם סבע וקרא שמו צרור המור ; מיוסד על פשט התורה וקצתו על דרך הנסתר ומאמרי ספר הזהר וקבלה וענינים אחרים מדברי רז״ל.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saba, Abraham ben Jacob, approximately 1440-approximately 1508, author.

Contributor:

Jacob ben Ḥayyim ben Isaac ibn Adonijah, approximately 1470-approximately 1538, editor.

Bomberg, Daniel, 1483-1553?, printer.

יעקב ן׳ אדוניהו.

Standardized Title:

Tseror ha-mor

צרור המור

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Bible. Pentateuch--15th century--Commentaries.

Bible.

Cabala--Texts.

Cabala.

Penn Provenance:

Annenberg Research Institute (stamp) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)

The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)

Malter, Henry (1864-1925) (bookplate) (autograph) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)

Deinard, Ephraim (inscription) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)

Jachia, Abraham (autograph) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)

Sinigaglia, Solomon Jedidiah (inscription) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)

Graziani, Abraham Vita (1700?-1761) (inscription) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)

Physical Description:

[171] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)

Edition:

[first edition]

Manufacture:

[Venice] : Nidpas be-vet Daniʼel Bombergi me-Anṿerśah, bi-shenat [5]283 ba-ḥodesh Kislev [that is, November-December 1522] poh Ṿenitsiyah

[ויניציאה] : נדפס בבית דניאל בומבירגי מאניורשה, בשנת רפ"ג בחודש כסלו פה ויניציאה

Notes:

First edition; see Saba's complete bibliography in Libowitz, p. 37b.

Cabalistical commentary on the Pentateuch; title from Song of Solomon I:13 (translated as "satchet of myrrh").

Title from title page (l. 1[1] recto); romanization supplied by cataloger.

Printed in two columns in cursive type.

Woodcut headings preceding commentary of each Book of the Pentateuch; woodblock opening word, "בראשית" between two floral stalks -- l. 1[2] recto; "ואלה" inside separate woodcut letter pieces -- l. 9[2] recto; "ויקרא", letters in individual woodcut type with vines and tendrils -- l. 12[5] recto; "וידבר" -- l. 14[6] recto; "אלה" -- 17[4] verso; tapered columns.

Colophon -- l. 22[3] verso; the broker of the manuscript was Ḥayim ben Mosheh Shilṭon; completed on 20 Shevaṭ [5]283 [Thursday 15 February 1523].

Corrected by Jacob ben Ḥayyim ben Isaac ibn Adonijah; see colophon.

Signatures: 1-21⁸ 22⁴⁽⁻⁴⁾; gatherings signed in Arabic and Hebrew numerals, lower left recto; most gatherings signed in Hebrew square type, upper right recto (first leaves in gatherings 2-22).

Local Notes:

CJS Rare copy imperfect; missing title page (l. 1[1]).

CAJS Rare Folio copy bound in blind-tooled leather binding with two clasp hinges on front board (circa 18th century); spine torn and partially deteriorated; manuscript shelfmark, "אברהם סבע | צרור המור | Venezia 1523"; additional taped shelfmark, "3303".

CAJS Rare Folio copy with bearer impressions -- l. 4[8].

CAJS Rare Folio copy formerly owned by the Library of The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, Collection of Dr. Henry Malter (bookplate); RBR 3303 (pencil inscription); Annenberg Research Institute (stamp).

CAJS Rare Folio copy formerly owned by Abraham Jachia (inscription, l. 13[5]r: "Aabram Jachia", circa 1850).

CAJS Rare Folio copy with scholarly inscription, front free-end, likely in Ephraim Deinard's hand: "עיין מה שהביא ר' שלמה באבער בנוגע למחבר הספר הזה במבוא לתנחומא צד 114".

CAJS Rare Folio copy formerly owned by Abraham Vita Graziani (rabbi of Modena, Italy; 1700?-1761; inscription, colophon leaf and end paste-down).

CAJS Rare Folio copy formerly owned by Solomon Jedidiah Sinigaglia (18th century rabbi and poet in Modena, Italy; inscription, l. 1[2]r: "ס' צרור המור על התורה לאברהם סבע לה"ו שלמה ידידה סיניגאליא יצ"ו"); numerous marginalia in his hand appear in the volume.

CAJS Rare Folio copy with censorship inscriptions, crossed through and now illegible; lines censored in the volume.

CAJS Rare Folio copy formerly owned by Henry Malter, Philadelphia (inscription, front free-end: ד"ר צבי מאלטער פלדלפיה התרע"א; inscription, l. 1[2]: "Dr. Henry Malter, Philadelphia 1912").

Cited in:

Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo de. Annales Hebraeo-Typographici (Vol. XVI; Parma: Ex Regio Typographeo, 1795), p. 24

Steinschneider, M., Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 4301 : 1

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Venice 86

Publications about:

Libowitz, Nehemiah S., "Rabi Avraham Saba ve-sefarav Tseror ha-mor ve-Eshkol ha-kofer" (Published by the author, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1936).

OCLC:

1443541150