Sefer Tifʼeret Yiśraʼel : ke-shemo ken hu, she-midaber nifleʼot tamim deʻim mi-toratenu ha-ḳedoshah ... / Yuda Liṿa na.r.u. b.k.m.R. Betsalʼel, asher ḥevyon uzo ṿe-or torato be-Ḳahal ḳadosh Prag be-Medinat Fihm.
ספר תפארת ישראל : כשמו כן הוא, שמדבר נפלאות תמים דעים מתורתנו הקדושה ... יודא ליווא נר"ו בכמ״ר בצלאל, אשר חביון עזו ואור תורתו בקהל קדוש פראג במדינת פיהם.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Judah Loew ben Bezalel, approximately 1525-1609, author.

Contributor:

Zanetti, Daniele, active 1576-1605, printer.

Bak,̣ Jacob ben Gershom, -1618, publisher.

Sorzinah Kats, Y. (Yaʻaḳov), corrector, editor.

בק, יעקב בן גרשון.

שורזינה כהן, יעקב.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Talmud Torah (Judaism).

Commandments, Six hundred and thirteen.

Eschatology, Jewish.

Penn Provenance:

Jaghel, Camilio (censor) (Kislak Center Folio BM520.8 J72 1599)

Renatus da Modena (censor) (Kislak Center Folio BM520.8 J72 1599)

Physical Description:

65, [1] leaves ; 28 cm (fol.)

Manufacture:

Poh Venetsyah : ʻAl yad Daniyel Zanetị = Con licentia de i Superiori

פה ויניציאה : על יד דניאל זאניטי

Place of Publication:

[Venice, Italy] : Nidpas ʻal yad ha-naʻalah ke.m.R. Yaʻakọv b.k.m.R. Gershon Baḳ, vẹ-hugah ʻa. y. Yaʻakọv Śorezinah Kohen ish Ḳośṭilan, [10 Nisan 5359, that is, 5 April 1599].

וויניציאה : ; נדפס על יד יעקב בכמ״ר גרשון ב״ק, והוגה ע״י יעקב שורזינה כהן איש קשטילאץ, ותהי השלמתו ביום ב' עשירי לחדש ניסן שנת ה'שנ"ט ליצירה.

Notes:

First edition.

Title page printed inside a woodcut architechtural frame (sloped roof with patterns; opposing pillars adorned with male and female busts, and lions above; grapes, apples and fig leaves (clusters), with meander pattern at foot).

Printed at the behest of Jacob Bak (Prague) by Daniel Zanetti (Venice) -- title page; edited and typeset by Jacob Soresina, of Castellano [Trentino; in German: Kastellein]. Reigning monarch mentioned in imprint -- Marino Grimani, Doge (Venice : Republic, until 1605).

Signatures: [alif]1-[ṭet ṿaṿ]15⁴ [yod ṿaṿ]16⁶ [leaf [yod ṿaṿ]16, 6 blank].

Printed in two columns; printed in square type. Woodcut crown (centered above title page text); woodcut factotum initial ("וזאת" -- leaf [alif]1, 2 verso).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Folio BM520.8 J72 1599: Complete; rebound (modern pressed faux-leather; modern marbled endpapers). Censor inscriptions ("Camillo Jaghel 1613" -- title page; Renatus de Modena -- bottom of leaf [yod ṿaṿ]16, 5 verso: "Ego fratur Renatus a Mutina ordii. Capp[um] [...] 1626").

Cited in:

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, J-412

Steinschneider, M. Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 6153 : 14

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Venice 884

OCLC:

1530461627