Ḥamishah Ḥumshe Torah, me-duyaḳim be-khol ʻoz u-gevurah, she-menu ototam otot ha-Ḳapiṭole ṿeha-Ḳere Ketiv : ʻim ha-Targum...
חמשה חומשי תורה, מדוייקים בכל עוז וגבורה, שמנו אותותם אותות הקפיטולי והקרי כתיב : ... עם התרגום...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, former owner.

Ashkenazi, Yosef Ḥai ben Shelomoh, active 1755, former owner.

Foʼah, Ṭoviyah, active 16th century, printer.

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

Annenberg Research Institute, former owner.

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

אשכנזי, יוסף חי בן שלמה.

Standardized Title:

Bible. Pentateuch. Hebrew & Aramaic. 5317 (1556/1557 : Sabbioneta, Italy)

Language:

Aramaic

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Bible. Pentateuch--Hebrew.

Bible.

Bible. Pentateuch--Aramaic.

Miniature books--Specimens.

Miniature books.

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing).

Penn Provenance:

Annenberg Research Institute (stamp) (CAJS Rare Miniature BS1222 1557)

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate) (CAJS Rare Miniature BS1222 1557)

Sulzberger, Mayer (1843-1923) (former owner) (bookplate) (CAJS Rare Miniature BS1222 1557)

Ashkenazi, Yosef Ḥai ben Shelomoh (active 1755) (inscription) (former owner)

Physical Description:

[5], 352, 57 leaves ; 10 cm (16mo)

Manufacture:

Ṿa-tehi reshit melʼakhto poh Sabyoneṭah asher hi taḥat memshelet ha-adon Ṿespezian Gonzagah Ḳolonah yar.h. : Bi-vet ha-ḳatsin ṿeha-nadiv ke.mo.ha-r. Ṭoviyah Foʼah Y.ts.ṿ., [5]317 [1556 or 1557]

ותהי ראשית מלאכתו פה סביוניטה אשר היא תחת ממשלת האדון ויספיזיאן גונזאגה קולונה יר"ה : בבית הקצין והנדיב כמה"ר טוביה פואה יצ"ו, בשנת עמים הר י'ק'ר'א'ו' לפ"ק

Language Note:

Text in Hebrew, translated to Aramaic (Targum).

Summary:

Vocalized Pentateuch, with the Aramaic Targum attributed to Onḳelōs, printed on facing pages, followed by the Five Scrolls and the Haftarot.

Notes:

Reigning monarch mentioned in imprint -- Vespasiano Gonzaga Colonna, duca di Sabbioneta (1531-1591).

Prologemna -- introduction, and a digest of Torah readings for holidays.

Signatures: [pi]⁴ 1-41⁸ 42⁴ 43-44⁸ 45⁴ [alif] 1-[zayin] 7⁸ (leaf 43 1 missigned 34).

Includes printed marginalia (Masoretic selections).

Completed on 1 Marheshvan 5318 [Sunday, 6 October 1557] -- colophon verse סייענו עד סיימנו חומש נאה היום ראשון. אל מרחשון. בשנת ש'י'ח""; this colophon verse noted by Davidson.

Printer's medallion -- title page verso; printer's device of Toviyah Foa inside a woodcut decorative cartouche. Opening Biblical text inside printed cartouche, both on facing pages ("בראשית" "בקדמין").

Local Notes:

CAJS Rare Miniature BS1222 1557: Imperfect; missing first gathering, and leaf 1, 1; missing final 3 leaves. Bound in contemporary pressed leather on wood; spine with three raised bands. Formerly Annenberg Research Institute (stamp), Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, Gift of Hon. Mayer Sulzberger (bookplate); inscription of Yosef Ḥai ben Shelomoh Ashkenazi on f. 42, 4v ("מקנת כספי לעבודת צור מעוזי יוסף חי בכה"ר שלמה אשכנזי : זלה"ה"), active 1755 in Ferarra, Italy, publisher of Seder Hoshʻanot shel Sukot ke-minhag Ashkenzim ba-ʻir Ferara (Venice : Bragadina, 1755).

Cited in:

Davidson, Israel. Otsar ha-Shirah veha-Piyut (Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry), vol. 3, number 195

Steinschneider, M. Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 149

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Sabbioneta 41

Sacred Splendor: Judaica from the Arthur and Gitel Marx Collection, 28

Yaari, A. Ha-madpisim Bene Foa, in, Mekhkere Sefer, 21

Publications about:

Berliner, Abraham. Targum Onḳelos ʻal ha-Torah, ʻal pi nusḥah ba-Ḥumash defus Sabioneṭah shenat [5]317 : Targum Onkelos, text nach editio Sabioneta V.J. 1557, herausgegeben und erläutert von Dr. A. Berliner (Berlin : Gorzelanczyk & Co., H. Itzkovski, 1884)

Contains:

Masorah magna Selections.

OCLC:

843017664