Eleh toldot adam gadol me-raban shemo / ha-ḥakham ha-shalem ... Barukh n' Barukh ... asher yikreʼu lo Ḳehilat Yaʻaḳov ... ; ve-shem ha-sheni ḳera Ḳodesh Yiśraʼel.
אלה תולדות אדם גדול מרבן שמו \ החכם השלם ... ברוך ן' ברוך ... אשר יקראו לו קהלת יעקב ... ; ושם השני קרא קודש ישראל.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baruch ben Moses ibn Baruch, active 16th century, author.

Modena, Leone, 1571-1648, author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Alfalas, Moses, active 16th century, editor.

Zanetti, Daniele, active 1576-1605, printer.

Library at the Katz Center Special Collections (University of Pennsylvania)

יהודה אריה ממודינא.

אלפלס, משה.

זאניטי, דניאל.

Standardized Title:

קהלת.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Bible. Ecclesiastes--Sermons.

Bible.

Bible. Ecclesiastes.

Jewish sermons, Hebrew--Early works to 1800.

Jewish sermons, Hebrew.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Early works.

Sermons.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (New York, N.Y.) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)

Pohl, Johannes (inscription) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)

Ḥayim ben Avraham (inscription) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)

Physical Description:

229 leaves : charts ; 29 cm (fol.)

Place of Publication:

Ṿenetsya = Con licentia de i Superiori = : Be-mitsṿat Daniʼel Zaneṭi uve-veto, [Nisan 5358, that is, April-4 May 1598].

ויניציא ... : במצות דניאל זאניטי ובביתו, [ניסן ה'שנ"ח].

Notes:

Signatures: [alif]1-[vav]6⁴ [zayin]7² [ḥet]8-[nun vav]56⁴ [nun zayin]57⁶ [nun ḥet]58⁶ [nun tet]59-[samekh alif]61⁴ [samekh bet]62² ; (l. [nun ḥet]58, 6 blank on both sides; final leaf, verso blank).

Opens with a poem by Leon de Modena ("תורה אשר נתן לעמן אל זבח.."), followed by an introduction by the author.

Includes the text of Ecclesiastes.

Begun in Nisan, 5358 (April 1598) -- title page, chronogram (ה' ביום סוף ניסן שנת ג'א'ו'ל'י' ב'א'ה' לפ"ק); completed on 28 Nisan (4 May) -- colophon ("ותהי השלמת המלאכה מלאכת ה' זכה וברה ביום כ"ח לחדש ניסן שנת ששון ו'ש'מ'ח'ה' ישיגו").

Title page printed inside a decorated woodblock frame (paisleys; ovals; pips; florals). Woodblock printing device of Daniele Zanetti (Prophet Daniel in a vision, inside an oval cartouche), with words "דניאל הנביא" adjoining.

Local Notes:

CAJS Rare Folio copy imperfect : missing the first gathering.

CAJS Rare Folio copy bound in blue patterned paper on board, with leather spine, circa 19th century; spine peeling at top (shelfmark 2895); cover worn.

CAJS Rare Folio copy formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate); Annenberg Research Institute (stamp).

CAJS Rare Folio copy with the bookplate of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction.

CAJS Rare Folio copy with a fragment of a handwritten bookplate (written in the hand of Johannes Pohl); additional bookplate fragment.

CAJS Rare Folio copy formerly owned by Ḥayim ben Avraham (inscription on blank leaf [nun ḥet]58, 6 verso: "מהו[ני] אני חיים בן לאדוני אבי כה"ר אברהם"; inscription circa 17th century, in Sephardic semicursive script).

Cited in:

Fürst, J. Bibliotheca Judaica, v.2, p. 217

Steinschneider, M. Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 333

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Venice 857

Contains:

Bible. Ecclesiastes

קהלת.

OCLC:

1002867731