Sefer Milḥamot ha-shem / leha-filosof ha-elohi ha-rav Leṿi ben Gershon ze.tsa.l. ; hugah ṿe-huram solet mi-tokh sifre Arisṭo, ṿe-sheʼar filosofi ash[er] me-ʿolam anshe shem.
מלחמות השם \ להפילוסוף האלוהי הרב לוי בן גרשון זצ"ל ; הוגה והורם סולת מתוך ספר אריסטו' ושאר פילוסופי אש' מעולם אנשי שם.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levi ben Gershom, 1288-1344, author.

Contributor:

Marcaria, Jacob, active 16th century, publisher.

Standardized Title:

Milḥamot ha-Shem. 1559-1560 (Riva del Garda, Italy)

מלחמות השם. ש"כ (ריווא דטרנט)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Aristotle--Criticism and interpretation--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle.

Jewish philosophy.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Judaism--Doctrines.

Judaism.

Penn Provenance:

Bolafico, Aron (autograph) (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

75 leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)

Edition:

[first edition]

Place of Publication:

Nidpas poh Riṿa de-Trenṭ [Riva del Garda, Italy] : [Jacob Marcaria], shenat [5]320 [that is, 1559 or 1560] le-f.ḳ.

נדפס פה ר״יװא דטר״ינט : [יעקב מרקריאה], שנת ש״ך לפ"ק

Notes:

Printer from title page verso.

Title page printed inside decorative woodblock frame (architechture, embellished and decorated with floral urns, opposing curved cornice rings, jewels, fruits; two cornucopiae at opposing heads of architechture). Coat of arms below title page text (mixed heraldry of the Prince-Bishopric of Trent and Diocese of Brixen; quarter shield, crowned, with three rampant eagles and one stag).

Printed in two columns.

Completed during Hannukah, 5321 (December, 1560) -- colophon.

Signatures: [alif]1-[tet]9⁸ [yod]10⁴; l. [yod]10, 4 blank.

Decorated woodcut versals - second leaf ("בדבר").

Introductory paragraph by the publisher (כה דברי הרופא ולא לו יעקב מרקאריה); see translation in: Shear, Adam. The Paratexts of Jacob Marcaria: Addressing the (Imagined) Reader in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Italy, in Volume 6: Reading across Cultures: The Jewish Book and Its Readers in the Early Modern Period, 2009, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy complete. Bound in contemporary limp parchment; manuscript title on spine.

Kislak Center copy purchased from [Otto] Harrassowitz, 9 December 1903.

Kislak Center copy formerly owned by Aron Bolafico (inscription, final leaf: "Sigre. Aron Bolafico"; this surname is related to the Sephardic Abulafia). Other inscriptions (front paste-down): Samueli Sabbeassra (?), Sabbato d'Unque (?).

Cited in:

Carmoly, E. Annalen der Hebräischen Typographic in Riva di Trento, p. 12

Steinschneider, M. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 6238, 2

Tamani, G. La Tipografia di Jacob Marcaria, 25

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Riva de Trento 20

USTC, 4049141

OCLC:

122840906