Book/Printed Material Be-reshit bara Elohim et ha-shamayim ṿe-et ha-arets בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ / Also known as: Ḥamishah Ḥumshe Torah / Also known as: Bologna Pentateuch

Title

• Be-reshit bara Elohim et ha-shamayim ṿe-et ha-arets

Other Title

• בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ
• Also known as: Ḥamishah Ḥumshe Torah
• Also known as: Bologna Pentateuch

Names

• Abraham ben Hayyim, dei Tintori, active 1473-1488, printer
• Ḳaraṿiṭah, Yosef, publisher
• Sṭraśburḳ Tsarfati, Yosef Ḥayim ben Aharon, proofreader
• De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo, 1742-1831, former owner
• Onḳelos
• Rashi, 1040-1105
• Incunabula Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• Boloniyah : Yosef Ḳaraṿiṭah y. ts. ṿ. b.k.m.r. Avraham ... ṿe-hiskir omanim u-foʻalim ... ṿa-yivḥar lo ʼish baḳi ... ba-melakhah ... Avram ts. ṿ. b.k.m.r. Ḥayim... me-erets Pisaro Ṿe-nishlemah ha-melakhah ha-temimah be-yom shishi ba-ḥamishah yamim li-yereaḥ Adar ha-rishon, shenat ḥameshet alafim u-matayim ṿe-arabʻim u-shetayim [5 Adar I, 5242] [25 Jan. 1482]

Headings

• -  Bible.--Pentateuch--Commentaries
• -  Italy--Bologna

Genre

• Incunabula

Notes

• -  First printed edition of the Hebrew Bible and of the commentary; the text resembles the layout of a Torah scroll. With the Targum of Onkelos in Aramaic in the fore-edge column by the Biblical text, and the Hebrew commentary of Rashi at the head and foot of the text. De Rossi mentions this imprint in his work Annales Hebraeo-typographici sec. XV, published in 1795, on page 22.
• -  Title from bold biblical text on leaf [1]1a; place, printer, and date of publication from colophon.
• -  Signatures: [1-4]¹⁰/⁸ [5]⁸ [6]¹⁰ [7-8]⁸ [9]⁶ [10]¹⁰ [11]⁴ [12-13]⁶ [14]¹⁰ [15]⁸ [16]⁶ [17-20]⁸/¹⁰ [21]⁸ [22]⁴ [23]⁸ [24]⁶ [25]¹⁰ [26-27]⁸ [28]⁶ (leaf [28]6 blank.)
• -  Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, Heb-18
• -  Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 12568
• -  Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M30624
• -  Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, volume 13, pages 26-28 (C. 49.d.2, C. 49.d.19)
• -  Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, ib00525570
• -  Ḳaṭalog ha-inḳunabulim ha-ʻIvriyim me-osef sifriyat Bet ha-midrash le-Rabanim ba-Ameriḳah, 19
• -  Offenberg, A.K. Hebrew incunabula in public collections, 13
• -  "Ani Yosef Ḥayim b. ha-r. Aharon, z.l.h.h., Sṭraśburḳ Tsarfati raʼiti ha-melakhah ... "--Colophon.
• -  Text typographically distinguished from commentary. Headlines of the names of the Torah portions; without numbering of chapters and verses.
• -  LC copy printed on vellum. Wanting leaf [28]6 (blank.) A few scattered marginal ms annotations; vocalizations and cantellations. With typescript notes and a [4]-page ms bibliographic description written on the letterhead of Museo del Risorgimento, Comune di Bologna tipped in. Bound in full calf with blind-ruled double-line border and blind-ruled double-line lozenges at center; original ties present.
• -  Giovanni Bernardo de Rossi discusses this imprint in his work "Annales Hebraeo-typographici sec. XV", pages 22-28.
• -  LC copy formerly owned by Giovanni Bernardo de Rossi, with his inscription and signature on the free-front endpaper.
• -  Described in: Report of the Librarian of Congress for the year ending December 1 ... (LCCN sf 83006875) in the year 1914 on page 49.
• -  Described in: Hebrew incunabula at the Library of Congress : a short-title list (LCCN 2016298177) as Number 5.
• -  BS1222 1482 Copy 1 formerly had shelfmark Incun. 1482 .B5 Copy 1. he04 2020-10-14

Medium

• [440] p. ; 32 cm (fol.)

Call Number/Physical Location

• BS1222 1482

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Incunables.51254

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2018751254

Online Format

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LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2018751254

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