Rosh amanah.
ראש אמנה.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abravanel, Isaac, 1437-1508, author.

Contributor:

Ibn Naḥmiʼaś, Shemuʼel, printer.

Ibn Naḥmiʼaś, Daṿid, printer.

León, Hebreo, approximately 1460- dedicator.

ן' נחמיאש, שמואל.

ן' נחמיאש, דוד.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Creeds.

Judaism.

Judaism--Doctrines.

Genre:

Sammelbands.

Penn Provenance:

Camac, William (1829-1900) (donor) (Kislak Copy)

Physical Description:

[39] pages ; 28 cm (fol.)

Manufacture:

[İstanbul, Turkey] : [David and Samuel ibn Nahmias], [1505]

[קושטנטינה, טורקיה] : [דוד, שמואל ן' נחמיאש], [הרס"ו]

Notes:

Caption title.

Page [1] blank; verso contains a verse of six lines by Yehudah Abravanel (also known as León Hebreo): "שירים שעשה החכם ה"ר יהודה אבראבנאל בן השר המחבר על ספר ראש אמנה : יסודות דת לעדת אל נתונה...". Woodcut frame (ornamental patterns; deer; fruits).

Text in cursive type; captions in square type.

Signatures: 8 l., [bet]-[gimel]⁶. Leaves 2-4 of the first quire, and 1-3 of the other quires, are signed consecutively [bet]-[yod]; gatherings signed on upper left rectos; leaves [alif]1r, [gimel]6v blank.

Imprint from Vinograd; colophon preserved from author's manuscript ("...והיתה השלמתו בנאפוליש בסוף חדש מרחשון שנת קול ר'נ'ה' וישועה").

Local Notes:

Kislak Copy imperfect: missing the first leaf. Bound in front of two other of the author's works, printed by the ibn Nahmias brothers in İstanbul (Zevaḥ Pesaḥ, 1505, and Naḥalat avot, 1506). Rebound (modern grey buckram; modern endpapers; bindings signed "KURT GAEBEL & SONS, HOLLAND, PA.").

Kislak Copy donated by William Camac (1829-1900), accessioned 1914 ( F892.212 Ab85.2); possibly purchased by Camac in Egypt.

Cited in:

Steinschneider, M. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 5302 : 44

Ya'ari, Avraham. ha-Defus ha-'Ivri be-Kosta, 3.

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Constantinople 9

Yudlov, Y. Israel Mehlman collection in the Jewish National and University Library, 1189

Constituent Unit:

Container of (manifestation): Abravanel Isaac. Zevaḥ Pesaḥ.

Container of (manifestation): Abravanel Isaac. Naḥalat Avot.

OCLC:

1512452551

Bound With:

With: Abravanel Isaac. Zevaḥ Pesaḥ ([Istanbul, Turkey] : [David and Samuel ibn Nahmias], [1505])

With: Abravanel, Isaac. Naḥalat Avot ([Istanbul, Turkey] : [David and Samuel ibn Nahmias], [1505])