Inventory of Hebrew Incunabula
SILKE S CH A E PE R

The purpose of the present inventory is to list all Hebrew books, including fragments, printed in the¢fteenth century and collected by the Bodleian Library since its foundation, rather than provide afull and detailed descriptive catalogue.
In Hebrew Incunabula in Public Collections: A First International Census (Nieuwkoop, 1990),
Adri O¡enberg cautiously listed 138 editions, of which little more than 2,000 copies are known tosurvive in public collections. After reconsidering some editions in O¡enberg’s list ‘Wat niet’ 1 andadding others not previously known or described, there are some 70 di¡erent texts in around 150
editions which may currently be regarded as incunables.2 Most are in Hebrew and Aramaic, but anumber also contain passages in Judaeo-Spanish, Judaeo-Arabic, and Judaeo-Italian, languages
written in Hebrew characters.
The Bodleian Library holds 85 editions in133 copies including 39 copies from the library of Rabbi
David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).3 It thus counts among the most important public collections of its
kind, ranking fourth after those of the Jewish Theological Seminary Library in New York (127
editions in 200 copies),4 the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem (97 editions in 150
copies),5 and the British Library (87 editions in 100 copies).6
The Hebrew Bible, in particular the Pentateuch (Hebr. Torah), and Jacob ben Asher’s Arbaah
t.urim were the most popular texts.7 Apart from owning copies of all 14 known editions of thePentateuch, the Bodleian has fragments of two formerly unknown editions (Heb 28, 30), most ofwhich were donated by Sir Arthur Cowley (1861^1931), Bodley’s Librarian from 1919 to 1931.
Half of the collection, some 67 copies, consists of editions of the Hebrew Bible and Jewish Bible
commentaries. Owing to repeated burnings of theTalmud by the Roman Catholic Church only 22 or
so editions of single Talmudic tractates have survived, and those in very few copies, many as fragments. The Library holds fragments of two tractates printed in pre-expulsion Spain (Heb 78^9) and1O¡enberg,‘Wat niet’, 144^50.
O¡enberg, Census, with Preliminary list of additions and corrections, unpublished computer-script, version 1 May 1999,
version 1 Dec. 2002; see also O¡enberg,‘British Library and Bodleian’, 80.
3E. N. Adler,‘The HebrewTreasures of England’, Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England: Sessions1915^
1917 (London, 1918), 6, recorded 67 editions. O¡enberg initially recorded 68 editions in 107 copies, erroneously attributing
103 copies to the Oppenheimer collection (Census, pp. ix, xxiv). In his‘British Library and Bodleian’, O¡enberg corrects this¢gure to 36 (p. 84). See alsoTable 11 and the Provenance Index. The present author plans to examine the acquisition, provenances, and cataloguing of the Bodleian’s Hebrew collections in greater detail in a forthcoming article in the Bodleian
Library Record.
4
Communication from S. M. Iakerson, St Petersburg, Nov. 2003. See S. M. Iakerson, ‘Hebrew Incunabula Collection[sic] in the Library of the JewishTheological Seminary of America in New York’, Manuscripta Orientalia, 6 (2000), 14^23.
5
The author is grateful to Dr Benjamin Richler and Ms Ofra Liebermann, of the Jewish National and University Library,for providing updated information on JNUL holdings.
6
See Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in the British Library, XIII: Hebraica, ed. A. K. O¡enberg(forthcoming).
7A. K. O¡enberg, ‘Verlust und Gewinn: Anmerkungen zum Material und Erkenntnisstand der hebra« ischen
Inkunabulistik’, in Johannes Gutenberg ^ regionale Aspekte des fru«hen Buchdrucks, ed. H. Nickel and L. Gillner, Beitra«ge
aus der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 1 (Wiesbaden, 1993), 185^8.
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i n v entory of h ebr ew i ncu na bulacopies of four tractates printed in Italy (Heb 75^7, 80). Nine incunable editions of liturgical texts are
currently known to bibliographers, of which the Library holds three (all of which were printed in
Italy): a Mah.zor, the festival prayerbook, of Roman rite; an edition of Selih.ot, penitential prayers,of the Roman rite; and a Sidur, the daily prayerbook, of Sephardic rite (Heb 82^4). The Libraryalso holds a fragment of a previously unknown edition, probably from another Italian Sidur (Heb85), removed from the pasteboards of a Latin breviary.
De luxe copies printed on parchment are known for a quarter of Hebrew incunable editions.8 The
Bodleian has one of the biggest collections in the world of Hebrew books printed on parchment,
including Heb 8 (copies 1^2), Heb 14 (copies 1^2), Heb 19 (copies 1^3), Heb 20 (copy 2), Heb 21(copy 2), Heb 23 (copies 3^4), Heb 28, Heb 76 (copy 1), and Heb 84 (copy 1).
Particularly noteworthy among the Library’s more recent acquisitions are fragments, as pointed
out in 1941 by Jacob Leib Teicher: ‘the Bodleian possesses a considerable collection of fragments of
Hebrew printed books, formed from donations, acquisitions from the Genizah at Cairo, and endpapers and joints discovered in old bindings.’9 Between 1941 and 1948 Teicher, Reader in Rabbinical
Literature at Cambridge University, published three articles on Hebrew incunables in which herecorded fragments preserved in British collections, including the Bodleian Library, many of themfor the ¢rst time.10
Damaged pages of Hebrew texts containing the name of God, whether handwritten or printed,
are discarded by observant Jews in ritual repositories called genizot (singular genizah).The Genizah
discovered in Cairo at the end of the nineteenth century contained thousands of paper and parchment fragments written in Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, and Yiddish, some of them dating back to thetenth century. A small percentage of these fragments is in print. Rivalled only by the Dead Sea
Scrolls, the Cairo Genizah is the greatest single hoard of primary sources for Judaic studies everuncovered.
Hungarian-born Adolf Neubauer (1832^1907), Hebraist and Sub-Librarian of the Bodleian from
1873 to 1899, and Romanian-born Solomon Schechter (1847^1915), Reader in Talmudic andRabbinic Literature at Cambridge, were the ¢rst scholars to recognize the importance of the Cairo
Genizah for research on Jewish literature. Although Schechter acquired the largest part of the Cairo
fragments in1896^7 for Cambridge, many found their way into other collections, some of them to the
Bodleian.
It is often forgotten that the Bodleian obtained its ¢rst fragments from Cairo in 1889 or1890: they
were gifts from the Egypt Exploration Fund and the Egyptologist, the Revd Greville John Chester(1830^1892). In 1906 the Bodleian bought further fragments from the Jerusalem scholar and bibliophile, Solomon Aaron Wertheimer (1866^1935).11 Subsequent acquisitions were made by Chester
and the Oxford Assyriologist, Archibald Henry Sayce (1845^1933).12 All the fragments were eventually placed in guard-books, and these volumes were allocated the shelfmark pre¢x Heb., in use in
the library since 1897. Although Craster stated that the fragments ‘were bound up in volumes as theyreached the library’,13 it is clear that1897 is not the terminus post quem of their acquisition. In 2004 allguard-books containing ¢fteenth- and sixteenth-century Hebrew printed fragments were assigned
the shelfmark Vet. Or. (‘Vetera Orientalia’, in use since at least the 1950s).
8
See A. Freimann, ‘Die hebra«ischen Pergamentdrucke’, ZfHB 15 (1911), 46^51, 186^7; B. S. Hill, ‘Hebrew Printing on
Vellum’, in Books Printed on Vellum in the Collections of the British Library, compiled by R. C. Alston (London, 1996), 180.
In his Census O¡enberg lists copies of 34 editions printed on parchment.
9
Teicher,‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, 234.
10
ForTeicher’s articles see the concordance in Table 1.
11
On Chester see Stefan C. Reif, A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo: The History of Cambridge University’s Genizah
Collection (Richmond, 2000), 16, 70, 236^7. For the Bodleian’s acquisition of this material see Craster 210^11. Cambridge
also bought from Wertheimer: see S. C. Reif, ‘Hebrew Collections in Cambridge University Library’, in Hebrew Studies:
Papers Presented at a Colloquium on Resources for Hebraica in Europe, held at the School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London, 11^13 Sept. 1989, ed. D. Rowland-Smith and P. S. Salinger, British Library Occasional Papers, 13(London, 1991), 32.
12
See A. E. Cowley,‘Preface’, in Neubauer II, p. iv.
13
Craster 211.

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The format of the inventory follows ISTC. Bibliographical descriptions contain brief information
on authorship, title, content, contributors, imprint, and format. Information has been compiled
from ISTC,14 Cowley’s Concise Catalogue, the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1473^1960, andnumerous bibliographical articles, many of which appeared in the Bodleian Library Record.
Publications cited in abridged format are recorded in the list of abbreviated references.
Identi¢cations and descriptions of fragments are based on handwritten notes by former membersof sta¡ and visiting scholars, on Teicher’s publications, and on the author’s own research, including
codicological information.15 Dates are converted to the Gregorian calendar. Personal names aretransliterated from the Hebrew in accordance with ISTC. Hebrew titles are mostly ‘made up’ andtransliterated to current Anglo-American standards. Actual or variant titles are added in square
brackets. Printing places are given in contemporary English spelling. Imprint information in square
brackets refers to identi¢cations suggested by previous bibliographers. Information on provenances
is given if readily available.
Systematic reference has been made to Proctor; Cowley’s Concise Catalogue; Goldstein’s census,
Hebrew Incunables in the British Isles; O¡enberg’s Census; Steinschneider’s Catalogus, with its
Supplement; Freimann and Marx’s Thesaurus; ISTC; the electronic database, The Bibliography ofthe Hebrew Book1473^1960;Tishby’s Defuse )eres (ink.unabulim) )Ivriyim (a detailed, but incomplete,bibliographical survey of Hebrew incunables containing beta-ray reproductions of watermarks); andthe articles by Teicher referred to above. References to catalogues such as De Rossi, Haebler, andHain, to catalogues of individual libraries, and to other national censuses, as well as to larger surveys
of individual printers, have usually been omitted; only occasional reference has been made to GW.
These can be traced through ISTC and O¡enberg’s Census.16
In addition to the main inventory, there are groups of supplementary descriptions, containing an
inventory of Hebrew post-incunables in the Bodleian (previously thought to be incunabula); an
inventory of Hebrew fragments from the ¢fteenth and sixteenth centuries which are not fully identi¢ed; and details of two Hebrew incunables mistakenly considered to have been in the Bodleian’scollection.
The author wishes to thank her colleagues Doris Nicholson,Vicky Saywell, Geo¡rey Neate, Clive
Hurst, and William Hodges, for their assistance in drawing up this inventory. She is particularly
grateful to Lesley Forbes and Richard Judd for their forbearance and kind support throughout;
Richard Judd’s assistance in all matters historical, bibliographical and linguistic has been invaluable. She also wishes to thank Professor M. Beit-Arie¤ (Jerusalem), Dr W. Kardorf (Berlin), and Dr.
A. K. O¡enberg (Amsterdam).

14
The author would like to thank John Gold¢nch (British Library) for assistance, and for permission to use material fromthe ISTC.
15
On Hebrew codicology see M. Beit-Arie¤, Hebrew Codicology (Jerusalem, 1977, repr. 1981); Beit-Arie¤,‘The Relationshipbetween Early Hebrew Printing and Handwritten Books: Attachment or Detachment’, in Beit-Arie¤ , The Makings of theMedieval Hebrew Book: Studies in Palaeography and Codicology (Jerusalem, 1993), 251^76.
16
See also E. D. Goldschmidt and others, Die hebra«ischen Inkunabeln im Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke:
Beschreibungen und Referenzen [letters H ^ Z], ed. with a preface by Brad S. Hill (Berlin and London, 1992), 2 vols, xerox ofhandwritten and printed cards, annotated with O¡enberg, Census numbers, unpublished manuscript.

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i n v en tory of h ebr ew i ncu na bulaHeb 1 Abraham ibn Ezra
Perush ha-Torah.
Naples: Joseph ben Jacob Ashkenazi [Gunzenhauser] and his son[Azriel], 2 May 1488. Folio.
Pr 6729; Cowley p. 14; Goldstein 52; O¡enberg 56; St 4221(1);Thes A60; ISTC ia00009300; BHB 0106360.
Rivkind, ‘Dik.duk.e sefarim’ [part 2], 275, no. 22; O¡enberg,‘Untersuchungen’, 129^44; O¡enberg, ‘Dating of Kol Bo“’, 59^88;
Yudlov 71^87.
Rivkind records copies with textual variants on fol. gimel8, portion Shemot (‘Abraham ha-meh.aber’ versus ‘Abraham’). For thetype and watermarks see O¡enberg.
FIRST COPY

shelfmark: Auct. M 4.17.
SECOND COPY

Wanting one printed [and one blank leaf ?] at the end.
Previous shelfmark: Auct. M 4.17 [duplicate].
shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o III.125.

Heb 2 Avicenna
Canon medicinae (I^V) (trans. into Hebrew by Joseph ben
Joshua Lorki and Nathan ben Eliezer Hameati).
Naples: Azriel ben Joseph [Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser], 9 Nov.
1491 [^1492?]. Folio.
Pr 6736; Cowley p. 47; Goldstein 74; O¡enberg 6; St 4486(1); Thes
A71; ISTC ia01417300; BHB 0106305.
FIRST COPY

In three volumes.
Provenance: Robert Huntington (1637^1701). Purchased in 1693.
Previous shelfmarks: MS. Huntington 623^5 (SC 6351^3); Auct.
M inf. 2.5^7.
shelfmark: Opp. add. fol. III.425a-c.
SECOND COPY

Imperfect.
Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. fol. 1133; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. fol. 1305.
THIRD COPY

In three volumes.
Provenance: Note in English by former owner Philip Levy, dated
1794 (Opp. add. fol. III.295).
shelfmark: Opp. add. fol. III.294^6.

Heb 3 Bahya ben Joseph ibn PakudaH. ovot ha-levavot (trans. from Arabic into Hebrew by Judah ben
Saul ibn Tibbon).
[Naples]: Joseph ben Jacob Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser, 19 Nov.
1489. 4o.
Pr 6732; Cowley p. 55; Goldstein 55; O¡enberg 9; St 4526(1); Thes
A63; ISTC ib00296660; BHB 0105750.
Rivkind, ‘Dik.duk.e sefarim’ [part 1], 57^8, no. 5; O¡enberg,‘Untersuchungen’, 129^144; O¡enberg, ‘Dating of Kol Bo“’, 59^
88; Yudlov 71^87.
Rivkind describes copies with typographical variants. For thetype see O¡enberg.
COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1379(2); see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1095(2).

[h eb 1^ h eb 7

Biblia Hebraica arranged by dateHeb 4 Biblia Hebraica
Tehilim.With index and Birkat ha-mazon (Roman rite).
[Northern Italy: Printer of the Psalms in sixteens, before 29 Aug.
1477] [Italy: n. pr., not after 1490] [Bologna?, 1477^80?]. 16o.
Pr 7436(B); Cowley p. 74(B); Goldstein 23; O¡enberg 36(B); St[1059](A), 1060(B); Thes A14 (A, with erroneous caption); ISTC
ib00525850; BHB 0304452.
Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [pt 3], Ohev sefer, 1(1987), 29^34, nos 24^5; A. K. O¡enberg, ‘Hebrew Printing of
the Bible in the XVth century’, in The Bible as Book: The First
Printed Editions, ed. P. Saenger and K. van Kampen (London,
1999), 71^7; A. K. O¡enberg, ‘Was the Real First Printed
Hebrew Biblical Text a Pocket-sized Psalter?’, in Give Ear to My
Words: Essays in Honour of N. A. Van Uchelen (Amsterdam,
1996), 227^35, noting, at 229 that the Psalms are numbered in themargins.
COPY

63 leaves. 2 leaves in the middle and last leaf missing. SeeO¡enberg,‘British Library and Bodleian’, 83 and 86.
shelfmark: Opp. add. 12o 81.

Heb 5 Biblia Hebraica
Tehilim (comm. David Kimhi).
[Northern Italy]: Joseph, Nerjah and Hayyim Mordechai and
Hezekiah de Venturo, 29 Aug. 1477. Folio.
Pr 7330; Cowley p. 74; Goldstein 21; O¡enberg 34; St 1; Thes A13;
ISTC ib00525860; BHB 0308017.
See Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [pt 3], Ohev
sefer, 1 (1987), 33^8, no. 23. Contains statement on the size of theedition (300 copies).
COPY

O¡enberg,‘British Library and Bodleian’, 87.
Provenance: Pietro Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735^1792):
printed label of the Crevenna sale (1789), part I, lot 215; in the
annotated catalogue marked down to Payne for Fl. 52.
Purchased for »4. 11. 0; see Books Purchased (1790), 1.
shelfmark: Auct. M 4.8.

Heb 6 Biblia Hebraica
Torah.
[Spain or Portugal: Printer of Alfasi’s Halakhot, c.1480?]. Folio.
Cowley p. 197 [fragments]; O¡enberg 23; Thes B38; ISTC
ib00525700.
COPY

Fol. 1 in a guard-book of fragments. Text of Be-reshit xviii:27^
xix:29.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. c.7.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. c. Heb. 3

Heb 7 Biblia Hebraica
Torah with Targum Onk.elos, 5 Megilot and Haft.arot (Sephardicrite) [Hebrew and Aramaic].
[Italy]: Isaac ben Aaron of Este and Moses ben Eliezer Raphael,[c.1480] [Spain?]. Folio.

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Cowley p. 197 [fragments]; O¡enberg 25; Thes B40; ISTC
ib00525720; BHB 0312543.
Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 5], K.iryat
sefer, 62 (1989/90), 361^7, no. 28.
COPY

Fol. 35 in a guard-book of fragments. Text of Ester 2:5. Teicher,‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, 235.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. d.83.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. d. Heb. 2.

Heb 8 Biblia Hebraica
Torah (comm. Solomon ben Isaac) and Targum Onk.elos [Hebrew
and Aramaic].
Bologna: Abraham ben Hayyim for Joseph Caravita, 25 Jan.
1482. Folio.
Pr 6557; Cowley p. 74; Goldstein 20; O¡enberg 13; St 2; Thes A15;
ISTC ib00525570; BHB 0313517.
Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 3], Ohev sefer,
1 (1987/8), 34^40, no. 26. See A. Freimann, ‘Die hebra«ischen
Pergamentdrucke’, ZfHB 15 (1911), 47; B. S. Hill, ‘Hebrew
Printing on Vellum’, in R. C. Alston, Books Printed on Vellum in
the Collections of the British Library (London, 1996), 181.

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Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 67; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 89.

Heb 10 Biblia Hebraica
Nevi˘im ah.aronim (comm. David Kimhi).
[Soncino: Joshua Solomon Soncino, c.1485] [c.1486] [1486^7?].
Folio.
Pr 7299; Cowley p. 24; Goldstein 34; O¡enberg 29; St 4; Thes
A39; ISTC ib00525780; BHB 0202671.
Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 6], K.iryat
sefer, 63 (1990/1), 608^15, no. 35.
FIRST COPY

Provenance: Benjamin Kennicott (1718^1783). Radcli¡e Library.
See O¡enberg,‘British Library and Bodleian’, 83.
shelfmark: Kennicott printed 4.
SECOND COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736); book-plate, acopper-engraved fore-title-page, depicting Moses, the HighPriest, and six biblical scenes; for a di¡erent book-plate see Heb
58 and 76 below.
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 68; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 90.

FIRST COPY

On parchment.
Provenance: Benjamin Kennicott (1718^1783). Radcli¡e Library.
See O¡enberg,‘British Library and Bodleian’, 83.
shelfmark: Kennicott printed 1.
SECOND COPY

On parchment.
Provenance: Pietro Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1736^1792)(?); perhaps the copy sold in part I, lot 206; in the annotatedcatalogue, marked down to Pierson for Fl. 125. A. Pierson(£. 1789). Justin, comte MacCarthy Reagh (1744^1811); sale(1815), lot 14. Purchased for »17. 10. 0; see Books Purchased(1817), 2.
shelfmark: Auct. M 4.2.

Heb 9 Biblia Hebraica
Nevi˘im rishonim (comm. David Kimhi).
Soncino: [Joshua Solomon Soncino], 15 Oct. 1485. Folio.
Pr 7298; Cowley p. 74; Goldstein 29; O¡enberg 27; St 3; Thes A31;
ISTC ib00525760; BHB 0202621.
For typographical variants see Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 6], K.iryat sefer, 63 (1990/1), 603^8, no. 34;
Rivkind,‘Dik.duk.e sefarim’ [part 4], 403, no. 2, noting typographical and textual variants.

Heb 11 Biblia Hebraica
Mishle (comm. Immanuel ben Solomon of Rome).
[Naples: Joseph ben Jacob Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser, 1486 or
1487]. Folio.
Pr 6727; Cowley p. 74; Goldstein 50; O¡enberg 43; St 1066; Thes
A58; ISTC ib00525940; BHB 0312574.
O¡enberg, ‘Untersuchungen’, 129^44; O¡enberg, ‘Dating of Kol
Bo“’, 59^88; Yudlov 71^87. With textual omissions, errors, andduplications (words and lines). For the type see O¡enberg.
FIRST COPY

Missing since 1999 (stolen).
Provenance: Not recorded in Hyde, Catalogus (1674) or in Fysher,
Catalogus.
shelfmark: B 21. 6 Th.
SECOND COPY

Provenance: John Selden (1584^1654).
shelfmark: GG 2 Art. Seld.(1).
THIRD COPY

Provenance: Pietro Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735^1792):
printed label of the Crevenna sale (1789), part I, lot 218.
Purchased with both volumes of Heb 13(3), and probably withHeb 12(2) for »19. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1790), 1.
shelfmark: Auct. M 4.12.

FIRST COPY

FOURTH COPY

Provenance: John Selden (1584^1654).
shelfmark: O 1.15 Art. Seld.(1).

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 124(1); see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 148(1).

SECOND COPY

shelfmark: Auct. M 4.10.
THIRD COPY

Provenance: Benjamin Kennicott (1718^1783). Radcli¡e Library.
See O¡enberg,‘British Library and Bodleian’, 83.
shelfmark: Kennicott printed 3.
FOURTH COPY

Last leaf is printed on di¡erent paper.
Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).

Heb 12 Biblia Hebraica
Tehilim (comm. David Kimhi).
Naples: Joseph ben Jacob Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser, 28 Mar.
1487. Folio.
Pr 6728; Cowley p. 74; Goldstein 49; O¡enberg 35; St 6; Thes A57;
ISTC ib00525870; BHB 0313108.

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See Yudlov 71^87; for the type see O¡enberg, ‘Untersuchungen’,
129^44. The biblical text contains omissions and errors.
FIRST COPY

[h eb 12 ^ h eb 17

Abraham Ya¯ari, ‘Defusim k.edumim’, K.iryat sefer, 22 (1946/7),
234; Abraham Ya¯ari, ‘¯Iyunim be-ink.unabulim ¯Ivriyim’, K.iryat
sefer, 24 (1947/8), 156^7; Teicher,‘Fragments of Unknown’, 105^6.

Provenance: Benjamin Kennicott (1718^1783). Radcli¡e Library.
See O¡enberg,‘British Library and Bodleian’, 83.
shelfmark: Kennicott printed 2(1).

FIRST COPYSECOND COPYSECOND COPY

Provenance: Pietro Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735^1792)(?); sale (1789), part I, probably lot 216. For acquisition see
Heb 11(3).
shelfmark: Auct. M 4.9.

On parchment.
Previous shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 2.11.
shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o V.149.

On parchment.
shelfmark: Auct. M 4.15.

Heb 15 Biblia Hebraica
Heb 13 Biblia Hebraica
Iyov, Mishle, 5 Megilot [Shir ha-shirim, K. ohelet, Ekhah, Rut,
Ester], Dani˘el, Ezra, Neh.emyah, Divre ha-yamim I-II (comm.
Levi ben Gershom [Iyov], Immanuel ben Solomon of Rome
[Mishle]; Solomon ben Isaac [Shir ha-shirim, K. ohelet, Rut,
Ester, Dani˘el, ¯Ezra]; Joseph ben Simeon Kara [Ekhah];
Pseudo-Solomon ben Isaac (Samuel ben Kalonymos he-Hasid?)[Divre ha-yamim I-II]).
Naples: Joseph ben Jacob Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser, 8 Sept.1486.
Folio.
GW 12114(3); Pr 6726; Cowley p. 74; Goldstein 51; O¡enberg 46;
St 5; Thes A59; ISTC ib00525970; BHB 0309261.
For the type see O¡enberg, ‘Untersuchungen’, 129^44. On dating(5247 or 5248), textual omissions and errors see Yudlov 71^87; onthe dating see also GW.
FIRST COPY

Wanting Divre ha-yamim I^II.
Provenance: John Selden (1584^1654).
shelfmark: GG 2 Art. Seld.(2).
SECOND COPY

Wanting Iyov, Mishle, Rut.
Provenance: Benjamin Kennicott (1718^1783). Radcli¡e Library.
See O¡enberg,‘British Library and Bodleian’, 83.
shelfmark: Kennicott printed 2(2).
THIRD COPY

In two volumes. Iyov, 5 Megilot, Dani˘el, ¯Ezra (Auct. M 4.11);
Divre ha-yamim I^II (Auct. M 4.7).Wanting Mishle.
Provenance (of Auct. M 4.7): Pietro Antonio BolongaroCrevenna (1735^1792): printed label of the Crevenna sale (1789),
part I, lot 221; (of Auct. M 4.11): Pietro Antonio BolongaroCrevenna (1735^1792): printed label of the Crevenna sale (1789),
part I, lot 214. For acquisition see Heb 11(3).
shelfmark: Auct. M 4.7, Auct. M 4.11.
FOURTH COPY

Shir ha-shirim only.
Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 124(2); see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 148(2).

Heb 14 Biblia Hebraica
Torah, 5 Megilot, Haft.arot (Sephardic rite).
[H|¤ jar: Eliezer ben Alantansi, 1487^8?] [1486^9?]. Folio.
Pr 9601; Cowley p. 75; Goldstein 88; O¡enberg 15; St 1011a; Thes
B12; ISTC ib00525600; BHB 0312542. Micro¢che: Unit 16[Bodleian copy].

Torah, 5 Megilot, Haft.arot (Sephardic rite).
[H|¤ jar?: Eliezer ben Alantansi?, c.1492] [Salonica?]. 8o or 4o[?].
Cowley p. 197 [fragments]; O¡enberg, ‘Wat niet’, 146, no. [15];
Meyer, Hebrew Printing, no. 230; Meyer, ‘Incunabula’, no. 18;
Teicher, ‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, 235; Teicher, ‘Fragments ofUnknown’, 105.
19 lines of text. Text size: 119 ¿ 83 mm. Unvocalized Sephardic
type. Justi¢cation of left margin by anticipation of next word.
Meyer and Teicher record format as 8o. Teicher discusses date,location, and watermark evidence (‘scales in circle, surmounted
by star, feathers or scissors’).
FIRST COPY

Fols 1^4 in a guard-book of fragments. Text of K
. ohelet vi:4 (fol. 1)
and Haft.arot, I Melakhim i:1 (fol. 2), I Melakhim vii:14 ^Yesha¯yahu xliv:3 (fols 3^4). Fols 1^2: horizontal laid lines, fol. 3:
no chain or laid lines discernible, fol. 4: vertical laid lines(?).
Provenance: From the Cairo Genizah. Acquired in 1889 or later
by Greville John Chester (1830^1892), by Archibald Henry
Sayce (1845^1933), or from Solomon Aaron Wertheimer (1866^
1935); see Arthur Cowley, ‘Preface’, in Neubauer, II (Oxford,
1906), p. iv.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. e.87.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5.
SECOND COPY

Fols 1 and 23 in a guard-book of fragments. Paper with horizontal
laid lines. No watermarks. Text of K
. ohelet vi:12 (fol. 1) and Ester
ii:12 (fol. 23). Fol. 23 with manuscript vocalization.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. d.83.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. d. Heb. 2.

Heb 16 Biblia Hebraica
Torah, Nevi˘im, Ketuvim.
Soncino: Abraham ben Hayyim, for Joshua Solomon Soncino, 22
Apr. 1488. Folio.
Pr 7305; Cowley p. 75; Goldstein 39; O¡enberg 10; St 7; Thes A45;
ISTC ib00525500; BHB 0313435.
COPY

Roth,‘Border of Naples Bible’, 295^303.
shelfmark: Auct. M 4.4.

Heb 17 Biblia Hebraica
Torah (comm. Solomon ben Isaac) and Targum Onk.elos [Hebrew
and Aramaic]; corrected by Abraham bar Isaac ben David.
H|¤ jar: [Eliezer ben Alantansi], for Solomon ben Maimon
Zalmati, between 19 July and 17 Aug. 1490. Folio.

heb 17^heb 21]

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Pr 9602; Cowley p. 75; Goldstein 89; O¡enberg 16; St 8; Thes B11;
ISTC ib00525620; BHB 0312552.

2721

Previous shelfmarks: MS. Canon. Gr. 103(1); Auct. M 4.19.
shelfmark: Inc. d. P2.1491.

COPY

SECOND COPY

Imperfect.
shelfmark: Auct. M 4.20.

On parchment.
shelfmark: Auct. M 4.19.
THIRD COPY

Heb 18 Biblia Hebraica
Tehilim.
[Iberian peninsula, other Mediterranean countries?: Shem Tov
ibn Halaz?, c.1490?]. 8 .
Cowley p. 197 [fragments]; O¡enberg,‘Wat niet’, 146, no. [19].
Vertical chain-lines. No watermarks. 14 lines of text. Text size:
81 ¿ 59 mm. Typeface resembles Thes B31 and B32. See Teicher,‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, 235; Teicher, ‘Fragments ofUnknown’, 107^8. According to Angelo Piatelli (Jerusalem) typographically related to:
1. Bahya ben Asher ibn Halawah, Perush ha-Torah, n. pl., Shem
Tov ibn Halaz and son Judah, 17 H
. eshvan 5252 [21 Oct. 1491],
O¡enberg 7, ISTC ib00296630;
2. Moses Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, [Spain or Portugal],
Moses ben Shealtiel, [1491?], O¡enberg 89, ISTC im00079600;
3. Hagadah with Arabic rubrication in Hebrew characters, illustrated, n. pl., n. pr., probably ¢fteenth century, fragments in
Vienna, Oºsterreichische Nationalbibliothek, and Jerusalem,
Schocken Institute. See E. Roth, ‘Zur 500^ja«hrigen hebra«ischen
Buchdruckerei, zugleich u«ber eine unbekannte Haggadah’,Udim, 6 (1975/6), 93^106; GW 12113; Otsar ha-Hagadot: bibliyografyah shel hagadot Pesah. me-reshit ha-defus ha-¯Ivri ad shenat
720 [Haggadah thesaurus, in Hebrew], ed. Yitshak Yudlov(Jerusalem, 1997), 4; BHB 0118960; S. Schaeper, ‘Sridei
Schocken: Einbandfragmente of Hebrew Incunabula andPostincunabula at the Schocken Institute for Jewish Research’, inJewish Studies at theTurn of theTwentieth Century, Proceedings of
the 6th EAJS Congress Toledo 1998, ed. J. Targarona-Borra¤s and
A. Sa¤enz-Badillos, vol. 1: Biblical, Rabbinical and Medieval
Studies (Leiden, 1999), 627^35.
COPY

Fols 5^6 in a guard-book of fragments. Text of Tehilim civ:29^
cv:44. No watermarks.
Provenance: From the Cairo Genizah; for details of acquisition
see Heb 15(1).
Previous shelfmark: Heb. e.87.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5.

Heb 19 Biblia Hebraica
Torah (comm. Solomon ben Isaac) and Targum Onk.elos [Hebrew
and Aramaic].
Lisbon: [EliezerToledano], between 8 July and 6 Aug. 1491. Folio.
Pr 9835; Cowley p. 75, 197 [fragments]; Goldstein 94; O¡enberg
17; St 10; Thes B20; ISTC ib00525640; BHB 0309260.
FIRST COPY

Three double leaves, fols 99/102, 250/3, 342/9. On parchment.
Provenance: Formerly bound with Aristotle, Peri aisthesios kai
aisthetou (Paris, 1549), MS. Canon. Gr. 103(1). The leaves were
subsequently bound with Auct. M 4.19 and again removed in1892 to the current shelfmark; see Interleaved St.
Provenance: Matheo Luigi Canonici (1727^1805). Acquired in
1817.

Incomplete. Last seven leaves on parchment. Supplemented with
11 leaves of a later edition (Salonica, 1520), also on parchment.
Teicher, ‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, 236; Teicher, ‘Unidenti¢ed
Hebrew Incunable’, 130^1.
shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o I.258(1).
FOURTH COPY

Fols 21^2 in a guard-book of fragments. Both leaves have ‘handwith star’ watermark.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. c.7.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. c. Heb. 3.

Heb 20 Biblia Hebraica
Torah, Megilot, Haft.arot (Sephardic rite), and Megilat
Ant.yokhus (comm. Solomon ben Isaac).
Naples: Sons of Israel Nathan Soncino, 1491. Folio.
Cowley p. 197 [fragments]; Goldstein 46; O¡enberg 18; St 11; Thes
A70; ISTC ib00525650; BHB 0202686.
Teicher,‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, 235.
FIRST COPY

Fol. 32 in a guard-book of fragments.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. d.83.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. d. Heb. 2.
SECOND COPY

Fol. 55 in a guard-book of fragments. On parchment.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. d.83.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. d. Heb. 2.

Heb 21 Biblia Hebraica
Torah, Megilot, Haft.arot (Ashkenazic and French rite).
Brescia: Gershom Soncino, 23 Jan. 1492. 8o.
Pr 7022; Cowley p. 75, 197 [fragments]; Goldstein 62; O¡enberg
19; St 12; Thes A78; ISTC ib00525660; BHB 0202662.
Vertical chain-lines. One of two editions similar in layout, but differently set; see Heb 22.
FIRST COPY

Wanting ¢rst part of Be-reshit and end of Haft.arot. See annotated
Catalogus (1843), III, 81b; Interleaved St. [‘Auct. M inf. 1.10 and
11’ recte ‘Auct. M inf. 1.20 and 21’].
Previous shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 1.20 or 1.21(?).
shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o IV.225.
SECOND COPY

On parchment. See annotated Catalogus (1843), III, 81b;
Interleaved St.
Previous shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 1.4.
shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o IV.222*.
THIRD COPY

Fol. 7 in a guard-book of fragments.
Provenance: From the Cairo Genizah; for details of acquisition
see Heb 15(1).
Previous shelfmark: Heb. e.87.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5.

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i n v en tory of h ebr ew i ncu na bulaHeb 22 Biblia Hebraica
Torah, Megilot [Haft.arot?][Brescia: Gershom Soncino, c.1492?]. 8o.
Cowley p. 75.
Similar in layout, but set di¡erently from Heb 21. Cowley suggests‘another (later?) impression [of Heb 21 above]’.
COPY

Wanting ¢rst part of Be-reshit, ¢rst leaves of Shir ha-shirim, andlast leaves of Ester [and Haft.arot?]. See annotated Catalogus(1843), III, 81b; Interleaved St.
Previous shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 1.4(?).
shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o IV.222.

Heb 23 Biblia Hebraica
Torah, Nevi˘im, Ketuvim.
[Naples: Joshua Solomon Soncino, c.1492] [1491]. Folio.
Pr 6740; Cowley p. 197 [fragments]; Goldstein 48; O¡enberg 11;
Thes A75; ISTC ib00525520; BHB 0313018.
Teicher,‘Notes on Hebrew Incunables’, 56.
With Hebrew signatures. Some copies have an index to theHaft.arot (Italian rite) on fol. 1v.
FIRST COPY

Fol. 34 in a guard-book of fragments. Watermark is possibly‘scales in circle’.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. c.7.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. c. Heb. 3.

[h eb 22 ^ h eb 27[Naples, Joshua Solomon Soncino, c.1492]. Folio.
Printer assigned by O¡enberg.
Cowley p. 197 [fragments]; O¡enberg 20; Thes A98; ISTC
ib00525670; BHB 0202622.
COPY

Fol. 35 in a guard-book of fragments. Text of Devarim xxxii:27.
Teicher,‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, 235.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. c.7.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. c. Heb. 3.

Heb 25 Biblia Hebraica
Yesha¯yahu,Yirmeyahu (comm. David Kimhi).
Lisbon: Eliezer Toledano, 1492. Folio.
Pr 9836; Goldstein 95; O¡enberg 32; St 13; Thes B21; ISTC
ib00525820; BHB 0202667.
FIRST COPY

Yesha¯yahu only.Wanting fol. 1.
shelfmark: Auct. M 4.24.
SECOND COPY

Yesha¯yahu only.
Provenance: John Selden (1584^1654).
shelfmark: O 1.15 Art. Seld.(2).
THIRD COPY

Yirmeyahu only.
Provenance: John Selden (1584^1654).
shelfmark: O 1.15* Art. Seld.

SECOND COPY

Fol. 33 in a guard-book of fragments.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. d.83.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. d. Heb. 2.
THIRD COPY

Fol. 3 in a guard-book of fragments. On parchment.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. c.162.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. c. Heb. 4.
FOURTH COPY

The so-called ‘Holkham Bible’. 23 leaves missing, ¢rst leaf blank.
Without the index to Haft.arot (Italian rite) that appears in somecopies. On parchment.
Roth, ‘Border of Naples Bible’, 295^303; John Rylands Library
Manchester, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Hebrew Manuscripts
and Printed Books together with other Items of Jewish Interest(Manchester, 1958), 19; D. Rogers, ‘The Holkham Collection’,BLR 4 (1953), 255^67, at 262.
Binding: Late sixteenth-century German blind-tooled leather
over oak boards, clasps, bosses, and corners restored in the eighteenth century.
With illuminations in colour and gold leaf.
Provenance: Several former owners have signed the book in
Hebrew; one is named Isaac Farhi. The Bible was probably purchased in 1719, together with an unspeci¢ed manuscript, and amanuscript of Leonardo da Vinci, from a Mr. Hay, possibly the
Scottish priest and antiquary Richard Augustine Hay (1661^
1736?), by Thomas Coke (1697^1759), 1st Earl of Leicester. Cokefamily, Holkham Hall, Norfolk. Acquired in 1953.
shelfmark: Holk. c.1.

Heb 26 Biblia Hebraica
Torah, Megilot, Haft.arot (Ashkenazic and French rite).
Brescia: Gershom Soncino, 24 Nov. 1493. 8o.
Pr 7023; Cowley p. 75; Goldstein 63; O¡enberg 22; St 15; ISTC
ib00525690; BHB 0202623.
COPY

Torah only.
See annotated Catalogus (1843), III, 81b; Interleaved St.
Previous shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 1.19.
shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o IV.223.

Heb 27 Biblia Hebraica
Torah, Nevi˘im, Ketuvim.
Brescia: Gershom Soncino, 24^30 May 1494. 8o.
Pr 7024; Cowley p. 75; Goldstein 64; O¡enberg 12; St 17; Thes
A81; ISTC ib00525540; BHB 0313434.
Roth, ‘Border of Naples Bible’, 295^303. Steinschneider assumes
that the 1493 edition of Torah, Megilot, Haft.arot (see Heb 26
above) belongs together with Nevi˘im and Ketuvim of thisedition.
FIRST COPY

Torah only. Gatherings in various paper sizes, possibly assembled
from di¡erent copies. See Interleaved St [‘Auct. M inf. 1.10 and 11’
recte ‘Auct. M inf. 1.20 and 21’].
Previous shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 1.20(?).
shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o IV.224.
SECOND COPY

Heb 24 Biblia Hebraica
Torah with Haft.arot (Ashkenazic rite).

Ketuvim only. See Interleaved St.
Previous shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 1.21(?).
shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o IV.226.

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THIRD COPY

Goldstein erroneously refers to the Megilot in this copy as belonging to the 1493 edition. The opening page beginning with ‘Shir’ istextually identical but set di¡erently from the opening page of thecopy described by David Waiman,Wineman Family Collection of
Incunables (London, [1989]), no. 47 (with reproduction).
Nevi˘im and Ketuvim only. In Interleaved St. ‘1493 ed., v. De
Rossi’ was corrected to 1494 in Interleaved Cowley.
Previous shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 1.21*.
shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o IV.226*.
FOURTH COPY

Nevi˘im only.
Previous shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 1.25.
shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o IV.226**.

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Teicher,‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, 235.
Upper part of page only, with loss of text. No chain or laid lines
visible. List of Haft.arot printed in two columns. 36 lines oftext. Size of preserved text: 156 ¿ 96 mm. Size of fragment:
175 ¿ 125 mm. Semi-cursive Sephardic type similar to Thes A70.
Heading in unvocalized square Sephardic type.
COPY

Fol. 11 in a guard-book of fragments. The heading reads ‘Simane
haft.arot me-kol ha-shanah ke-minhag Sefarad’.
Provenance: Donated by Sir Arthur Cowley (1861^1931).
Previous shelfmark: Heb. d.123.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. d. Heb. 3.

Heb 31 David Abudraham
Heb 28 Biblia Hebraica
Torah, with Targum Onk.elos (comm. Solomon ben Isaac)[Hebrew and Aramaic].
[Constantinople?, Nahmias?, after 1493?] [Salonica, before 1501][Salonica, c.1510]. Folio.
Cowley p. 197 [fragments].
Biblical text in square vocalized Sephardic type. Dilated lettersalef, he, h.et, resh, tav. Targum in smaller vocalized Sephardic
type, commentary in Sephardic semi-cursive type. With leaf
numbering and running titles. Tetragrammaton in text of
Targum similar to Thes B44 and Thes C1; see also Heb-Post 2.
COPY

Fols 6^7 and 9 in a guard-book of fragments. Fols 6 and 7[numbered 44 and 47] are made up of one sheet; text is from Bereshit: Toldot, with gap of one sheet [i.e. fols 45^46]. Text of fol. 9[numbered 119] is from Shemot: Be-shalah.. On parchment.
Provenance: Fol. 9 donated by Sir Arthur Cowley (1861^1931).
Previous shelfmark: Heb. d.123.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. d. Heb. 3.

Heb 29 Biblia Hebraica
Mishle. With Targum Yonatan (comm. Menahem Meiri and Levi
ben Gershom) [Hebrew and Aramaic].
Leiria: [Samuel Dortas and his son Abraham], for Moses
Colodero, 30 June 1497. Folio.
Dimitrovsky p. 73^4; Pr 9840; Cowley p. 75; Goldstein 98;
O¡enberg 45; St 14; Thes B26; ISTC ib00525960; BHB 0313436.
M. Beit-Arie¤, ‘The Relationship between Early Hebrew Printingand Handwritten Books: Attachment or Detachment’, in M.
Beit-Arie¤, The Makings of the Medieval Hebrew Book: Studies in
Palaeography and Codicology (Jerusalem, 1993), 251^76.
COPY

Wanting leaves at the beginning.
Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 120; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 144.

Heb 30 Biblia Hebraica[Torah?] [Megilot?] Haft.arot (Sephardic rite).
[Italy: Bene Soncino?, n. d.] [Naples?] [Venice?] [Pesaro?]. 8 o orlong 12o.
Cowley p. 197 [fragments].

Perush ha-Berakhot veha-Te¢lot.
Lisbon: Eliezer [Toledano], 25 Nov. 1489. Folio.
Pr 9834; Cowley p. 145; Goldstein 92; O¡enberg 1; St 4784(I);Thes B19; ISTC id00101800; BHB 0105180.
On watermarks see O¡enberg, ‘Dating of Kol Bo“’, 59^88. The
acrostychon ‘Yigdal’ could indicate that Judah Gedalyah was
involved in the production; see M. Marx, ‘A Catalogue of the
Hebrew Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century now in the
Library of the Hebrew Union College’, Studies in Bibliography
and Booklore, 1 (1953/4), no. 20.
COPY

Provenance: Pietro Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735^1792):
printed label of the Crevenna sale (1789), part I, lot 1270; in the
annotated catalogue marked down to Payne for Fl. 70.
Purchased for »6. 2. 6; see Books Purchased (1790), 2, with theyear given as ‘1495’.
shelfmark: Auct. M 4.14.

Heb 32 David Kimhi
Sefer ha-shorashim; part II of Sefer Mikhlol (corr. Samuel ben
Meir Latif).
Naples: [Azriel ben Joseph Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser], between
18 Aug. and 15 Sept. 1490 [Joseph ben Jacob Ashkenazi
Gunzenhauser]. Folio.
Pr 6734; Cowley p. 150; Goldstein 72; O¡enberg 105; St 4821(43);Thes A66; ISTC id00102730; BHB 0164644.
On copies with typographical variants see Rivkind, ‘Dik.duk.e
sefarim’ [part 4], 404^5, no. 5. On the dating of this edition bywatermark analysis see O¡enberg,‘Dating of Kol Bo“’, 59^88. See
Heb 33, Heb 41 and Heb 55(3).
COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. fol. 989; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. fol. 1170.

Heb 33 David Kimhi
Sefer ha-Shorashim; part II of Sefer Mikhlol.
Naples: Joshua Solomon Soncino [for Isaac ben Judah ben Davidde Quatorze?], 11 Feb. 1491. Folio.
Pr 6742; Cowley p. 150, 197 [fragments]; Goldstein 45;
O¡enberg 106; St 4821(44); Thes A69; ISTC id00102740; BHB
0164645.

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For the type see O¡enberg, ‘Untersuchungen’, 129^44. On thedating of this edition through watermark analysis see O¡enberg,‘Dating of Kol Bo“’, 59^88. See Heb 32, Heb 41 and Heb 55(3).
FIRST COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. fol. 990; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. fol. 1171.

[h eb 33 ^ h e b 39

Pr 7309; Cowley p. 274; L. Goldschmidt, Hebrew Incunables(Oxford, 1948), 28; Goldstein 68; O¡enberg 60; St 5415(2); Thes
A86; ISTC ii00175800; BHB 0313980
Marx,‘Gershom Soncino’, i-x, note 6; O¡enberg,‘British Libraryand Bodleian’, 84.
Contains the same illustrations as the ¢rst edition, Brescia
1490^2. See Heb-Not 2.

SECOND COPYFIRST COPY

Fols 50^1 in a guard-book of fragments.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. c.6.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. c. Heb. 2.

Provenance: Robert Huntington (1637^1701). Purchased in 1693.
Previous shelfmark: MS. Huntington 386 (SC 5964).
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 4(1).
SECOND COPY

Heb 34 Eldad ha-Dani
Sefer Eldad ha-Dani.
[Mantua: Abraham Conat, c.1475] [c.1480]. 8o.
Pr 6903; Cowley p. 166; Goldstein 14; O¡enberg 48; St 4934(1);Thes A6; ISTC ie00028750; BHB 0313955.
O¡enberg, ‘Chronology of Hebrew Printing’, 298^315; Tishby,‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 2], K.iryat sefer, 60(1985, i.e. 1986), 883^5, no. 13.
COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1347(3); see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1074(3).

Heb 35 Immanuel ben Solomon of Rome
Sefer ha-mah.barot [Mah.beret ¯Imanu˘el] [Mah.barot ¯Imanu˘el].
Brescia: Gershom Soncino, 30 Oct. 1491. 4 o.
Pr 7021; Cowley p. 254; Goldstein 61; O¡enberg 58; St 5269(1);Thes A77; ISTC ii00059500; BHB 0155985.
On copies with typographical variants see Rivkind, ‘Dik.duk.e
sefarim’ [part 1], 58, no. 6 and A.Ya¯ari,‘¯Iyunim be-ink.unabulim¯Ivriyim’, K.iryat sefer, 24 (1947/8), 159.
COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1394; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1113.

Heb 36 Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi
Halakhot; fragments of Berakhot and Shabat.
[Spain or Portugal: Printer of Alfasi’s Halakhot, c.1480?] [Toledo,
Juan di Lucena]. Folio.
Dimitrovsky pp. 435^500; Cowley p. 197 [fragments]; O¡enberg
4; St (Suppl. p. 501) 1088; ISTC ii00175500.
Teicher, ‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, 235; Teicher, ‘Fragments ofUnknown’, 106.
COPY

Fols 2^4 in a guard-book of fragments. Watermark on fol. 4(possibly ‘scales’).
Previous shelfmark: Heb. c.7.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. c. Heb. 3.

Heb 37 Isaac ibn Sahula
Meshal ha-K
. admoni.
[Italy]: Gershom Soncino, [ c.1497] [Fano?, c.1505]. 4o.

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 165(2); see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 187(2).

Heb 38 Jacob Baruch ben Judah Landau
Sefer Agur; with Sefer H. azon. Approbations by Benzion ben
Raphael Denoit[?]; David ben Judah Messer Leon; Isaac ben
Samuel Mor Hayyim; Jacob ben David Provenc° al; Judahben Jehiel Rofe Messer Leon; Moses ben Shem-Tov Ben-Habib;Nathanel ben Levi Trabot of Jerusalem; Solomon Hayyim ben
Jehiel Raphael Kohen.
[Naples: Azriel ben Joseph Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser, 1490^
2]. 4o.
Pr 6735; Cowley p. 299; Goldstein 73; O¡enberg 82; St 5564(1);Thes A67; ISTC ij00000100; BHB 0178449.
A. Tauber, ‘Yeshanim gam h.adashim’, K.iryat sefer, 6 (1929/30),
525^6, no. 1; A. M. Habermann and Y. Sonne, ‘He¯arot le-ma˘amaro shel A. T
. oiber [= Tauber]’, K.iryat sefer, 7 (1930/1), 166^70;
A. Tauber, ‘T. eshuva la-teshuva’, K.iryat sefer, 7 (1930/1), 171^2;
Rivkind, ‘Dik.duk.e sefarim’ [part 3], 491, no. 2; Teicher, ‘Notes on
Hebrew Incunables’, 56^9; Yudlov 71^87; Y. Yudlov, ‘Mihu
h.akham u-fosek. yehudi?: le-toledot mishpah.at rabanim tsarfatitit.alk.it min ha-me˘ah ha-15 veha-16’, It.alyah, 10 (1993), 11, no. 11.
Rivkind saw copies with variations in the layout of gathering 11.
COPY

Imperfect.
Provenance: The copy bears dated notes by Joshua Canton, Jacob
Rava of Padua (1563), and Shabtai Ascoli (1592), who acquired
the book in exchange from Menahem Rava. David Oppenheimer(1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 434; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 459.

Heb 39 Jacob ben Asher
Arba¯ah t.urim (parts I-IV). Orah. H. ayim, Yoreh de¯ah, H. oshenmishpat., Even ha-¯ezer.
Piove di Sacco: Meshullam Cusi and sons, 3 July 1475. Folio.
Pr 7231; Cowley p. 288; Goldstein 10; O¡enberg 61; St 5500(1);Thes A2; ISTC ij00000200; BHB 0315943.
M. Pollak, ‘The Prophetess Deborah and the Invention of
Printing’, Visible Language, 7 (1973), 345^50; Tishby, ‘Defuse¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 2], K.iryat sefer, 60 (1985, i.e.
1986), 870^7, no. 11.
COPY

In one volume.
Pts III and IVonly, Even ha-¯ezer (b) and H. oshen mishpat. (a).

heb 39^heb 45]

i n v en tory of h e brew i ncu na bulaPrevious shelfmark: Auct. M inf. II. 2.2^3.
shelfmark: Opp. add. fol. III.429a-b .

Heb 40 Jacob ben Asher
Arba¯ah t.urim (part II). Yoreh de¯ah. Moses Maimonides:
Mishneh Torah: Hilkhot Talmud Torah, chs 3^4.
Mantua: Abraham Conat, [1476^7]; Ferrara: Abraham ben
Hayyim min ha-Tsabo¯im (i.e. Tsaba¯im) = Dei Tintori, 25 July
1477. Folio.
Pr 6902A = 5746; Cowley p. 289; Goldstein 13; O¡enberg 70; St
5500(30); Thes A5; ISTC ij00000650; BHB 0314640 & 0136074.
Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 2], K.iryat
sefer, 60 (1985, i.e. 1986), 913^16, no. 21; O¡enberg, ‘Chronology
of Hebrew Printing’, 298^315.
The text was issued almost simultaneously by two printers, one in
Mantua and one in Ferrara. Both printers used North Italiansemi-cursive typefaces. In addition, Conat also used a larger
square Ashkenazic type. Abraham ben Hayyim’s typeface iseasily discernible by its prominent ligature alef and lamed. The¢rst three gatherings (30 fols) and the ¢rst sheet of the fourth
gathering (fols 31 and 40) are from an (uncompleted?) edition by
Abraham Conat at Mantua. It has been assumed that Abrahamben Hayyim at Ferrara bought up Conat’s ¢rst gatherings andcompleted the edition, abandoning the ¢rst two gatherings of his
own edition. But this theory is contradicted by discrepancies inthe table of contents, the identical type area of both editions, andthe evidence on paper stocks. See BHB and O¡enberg,‘Chronology of Hebrew Printing’, 315.
COPY

shelfmark: Auct. M 4.25.

Heb 41 Jacob ben Asher
Arba¯ah t.urim (part IV). Even ha-¯ezer.
[Guadalajara: Solomon Alkabiz, c.1482] [1480?]. Folio.
Pr 9587; Cowley p. 289; Goldstein 81; O¡enberg 73; St 5500(36);Thes B2; ISTC ij00000800; BHB 0302286. Micro¢che: Unit 16[Bodleian copy].
O¡enberg,‘British Library and Bodleian’, 82. On the dating of thisedition using watermark analysis see O¡enberg, ‘Dating of Kol
Bo“’, 59^88. See Heb 32, Heb 33 and Heb 55(3).
COPY

112 leaves, complete.
Provenance: Moritz Steinschneider (1816^1907); acquired before
the completion of the Catalogus of 1852^60, see St 5500(36)(‘Ed. hucusque ignota, nuper ex Italia a me advecta, peculiaris.’);perhaps acquired in 1853 in Padua, from Isaac Samuel Reggio(1784^1855) or from Samuel David Luzzatto (1800^1865); see
E. N. Adler, ‘The Hebrew Treasures of England’, Transactions of
the Jewish Historical Society of England: Sessions 1915^1917(London, 1918), 6.
Previous shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 2.10.
shelfmark: Opp. add. fol. III.426.

Heb 42 Jacob ben Asher
Arba¯ah t.urim (part I). Orah. H. ayim.
[H|¤ jar: Eliezer ben Alantansi], between 12 Aug. and 9 Sept. 1485.
Folio.

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Pr 9599; Goldstein 86; O¡enberg 65; St 5500(21); Thes B8; ISTC
ij00000400; BHB 0136075.
Rivkind,‘Dik.duk.e sefarim’ [part 3], 490^1, no. 1, recording copies
with textual variants on fol. 82.
COPY

Fol. 2 in a guard-book of fragments. Text of siman 186^91.
Watermark ‘hand with [star, £ower?]’.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. c.162.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. c. Heb. 4.

Heb 43 Jacob ben Asher
Arba¯ah t.urim (parts I^IV). Orah. H. ayim, Yoreh de¯ah, H. oshenmishpat., Even ha-¯ezer.
[Soncino]: Solomon Soncino, [ c.1490]. Folio.
Pr 7302; Cowley p. 288; Goldstein 70; O¡enberg 62; St 5500(2);Thes A56; ISTC ij00000250; BHB 0313483.
FIRST COPY

Previous shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 2.4.
shelfmark: Opp. add. fol. III.428.
SECOND COPY

Preceded by title page from a later edition (Fano, 1516). See
Cowley p. 288 and Teicher,‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, 236.
Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. fol. 522(2); see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. fol. 725(2).

Heb 44 Jacob ben Asher
Arba¯ah t.urim (parts I^IV). Orah. H. ayim, Yoreh de¯ah, H. oshenmishpat., Even ha-¯ezer. Corrected by El[i]ja[h] ben Benjamin
Halevi.
Constantinople: David and Samuel ibn Nahmias, 13 Dec. 1493
[22 Dec. 1503]. Folio.
Cowley p. 288; Goldstein 104; O¡enberg 63; St 5500(3); Thes C1;
ISTC ij00000300; BHB 0184413. Micro¢che: Unit 16 [Bodleiancopy].
A. K. O¡enberg,‘The First Book Produced at Constantinople’, inO¡enberg, Choice of Corals, 102^32; A. K. O¡enberg, ‘The
Printing History of the Constantinople Hebrew Incunable of1493: A Mediterranean Voyage of Discovery’, British Library
Journal, 22 (1996), 221^35.
COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. fol. 521; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. fol. 724.

Heb 45 Jacob ben Asher
Arba¯ah t.urim (part I). Orah. H. ayim.
[Italy: Gershom Soncino, c.1497] [before 1507]. 4o.
Pr 7442; Cowley p. 289; Goldstein 67; O¡enberg 69; St 5500(22);Thes A85; ISTC ij00000600; BHB 0136078.
One of two di¡erent editions(?): see Marx, ‘Gershom Soncino’,i^x, with illustrations.
COPY

Wanting leaves at the end. Woodcut borders reproduced in Thes
A85,5 di¡er from those in this copy, see Teicher, ‘Notes on
Hebrew Incunables’, 59.

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Provenance: Note by a previous owner is dated 1507. David
Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 456; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 483.

Heb 46 Jedaiah ha-Penini ben Abraham Bedersi
Bak.ashat ha-memin. Moses Kimhi: Mahalakh shevile ha-da¯at[= Sefer Darkhe leshon ha-k.odesh]; a paraphrase on a Memrafrom Talmud Bavli: Bava batra; Joseph ben Hanan ha-Ezobi:
Shirat ha-musar [K. e¯arat kesef]; Judah ben Solomon Al-Harizi:
Mishle h.amishim talmidim [from Sefer Tah.kemoni].
Soncino: Gershom Soncino, 21 July 1488. 8o.
O¡enberg 77; St (Suppl. p. 505) 6498; Thes A46; ISTC ij00218510;
BHB 0302217.
M. Schwab,‘Un incunable he¤breu’, REJ 12 (1886), 119^20; Marx,‘Gershom Soncino’, i^x, especially note 10.
COPY

Four leaves.Watermark ‘ox-head with [star?]’.
Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 8 392(2); see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 8o 447(2).

Heb 47 Jedaiah ha-Penini ben Abraham Bedersi
Beh.inat ¯olam.
[Mantua]: Estellina Conat, assisted by Jacob Levi of Tarascon,[1474] [1474^6]. 8o.
Pr 6907; Cowley p. 311; Goldstein 18; O¡enberg 75; St 5670(1);Thes A11; ISTC ij00218520; BHB 0178082.
Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 2], K.iryat
sefer, 60 (1985, i.e. 1986), 885^7, no. 14; O¡enberg, ‘Chronology
of Hebrew Printing’, 298^315.

[h eb 45 ^ h eb 53

COPY

Fols 21^2 in a guard-book of fragments. Watermarks in fol. 21,‘lower part of hand [with £ower?]’, fol. 22 ‘upper part of handwith £ower’.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. d.83.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. d. Heb. 2.

Heb 50 Jeshuah ben Joseph ha-Levi
Halikhot ¯olam. Jonah Gerondi: Sefer ha-yir˘ah and JonahGerondi: Sod ha-teshuvah.
[Leiria: Samuel Dortas, c.1494^7] [Eliezer Toledano]. 4o.
Pr 9838; Cowley p. 319; Goldstein 102; O¡enberg 78; St 5817(1);Thes B28; ISTC ij00219500; BHB 0139373.
Teicher,‘Notes on Hebrew Incunables’, 62.
COPY

Previous shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 1.22.
shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o IV.442.

Heb 51 Joseph Albo
Sefer ha-¯Ik.arim.
Soncino: [Joshua Solomon Soncino], between 31Oct. and 29 Dec.
1485. Folio.
Pr 7300; Cowley p. 327; Goldstein 30; O¡enberg 3; St 5882(1);Thes A32; ISTC ij00479800; BHB 0109905.
Rivkind, ‘Dik.duk.e sefarim’ [part 1], 55^6, no. 1, reporting copies
with typographical and textual variants; Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres(ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 6], K.iryat sefer, 63 (1990/1),
615^21, no. 36.
FIRST COPY

Provenance: John Selden (1584^1654).
shelfmark: FF 26 Art. Seld.

COPY

SECOND COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1347(1); see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1074(1).

Wanting fols 57^8 (censorship).
Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. fol. 929; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. fol. 1108.

Heb 48 Jedaiah ha-Penini ben Abraham Bedersi
Beh.inat ¯olam.With an anonymous commentary.
Soncino: [Joshua Solomon Soncino], 12 Dec. 1484. 4 o.
Pr 7294; Cowley p. 311; Goldstein 27; O¡enberg 76; St 5670(2);Thes A30; ISTC ij00218530; BHB 0138544.
Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 5], K.iryat
sefer, 62 (1989/90), 383^5, no. 32.
COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1116(2); see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 879(2).

Heb 52 Joseph ben Gorion
Yosipon [Sefer ben Guryon].
[Mantua]: Abraham Conat, [11 May 1475]. 4o.
Pr 6905; Cowley p. 331; Goldstein 16; O¡enberg 79; St 6033(1);Thes A8; ISTC ij00479900; BHB 0135410.
O¡enberg, ‘Chronology of Hebrew Printing’, 298^315; Tishby,‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 2], K.iryat sefer, 60(1985, i.e. 1986), 890^3, no. 16.
FIRST COPY

shelfmark: Auct. M 4.6.
SECOND COPY

Heb 49 Jedaiah ha-Penini ben Abraham Bedersi
Beh.inat ¯olam.
[Constantinople?: n. pr., before 1501?]. 4 o.
Cowley 197 [fragments].
Horizontal chain-lines. Text size: 144 ¿ 98 mm. Small Sephardic
semi-cursive type and unvocalized square Sephardic type.
Upturned ‘shin’ as line-¢lling device. Tetragrammaton similar to
Thes B44.

Wanting leaves at the beginning.
Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1683; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1400.

Heb 53 Judah ben Jehiel Rofe Messer Leon
Nofet tsu¢m.
[Mantua]: Abraham Conat, [1474/5]. 8o.

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Pr 6904; Cowley p. 362; Goldstein 15; O¡enberg 80; St 5724(1);Thes A7; ISTC ij00493500; BHB 0138727.
O¡enberg, ‘Chronology of Hebrew Printing’, 298^315; Tishby,
K.iryat sefer, 60 (1985, i.e. 1986), 887^90, no. 15; Rivkind,‘Dik.duk.e sefarim’ [part 2], 280, n. 1.
FIRST COPY

Previous shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 2.
shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o IV.445.
SECOND COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1347(2); see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1074(2).

Heb 54 Kalonymos ben Kalonymos
Even boh.an (ed. Yom-Tov ben Perez Zarfati).
Naples: Joseph ben Jacob Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser, 25 Aug.
1489. 4o.
Pr 6731; Cowley p. 374; Goldstein 54; O¡enberg 102; St 6068(1);Thes A62; ISTC ik00005500; BHB 0164247.
Rivkind, ‘Dik.duk.e sefarim’ [part 1], 56, no. 3, describing copies
with typographical variants; O¡enberg, ‘Untersuchungen’,
129^44; O¡enberg, ‘Dating of Kol Bo“’, 59^88; Yudlov 71^87. For
the type see O¡enberg.
COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1379(1); see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1095(1).

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Heb 56 Levi ben Gershom
Be˘ur ¯al ha-Torah [Perush ha-Torah].
[Mantua]: Abraham Conat and Abraham Jedidiah ha-Ezrahi,[1475^6]. Folio.
Pr 6906; Cowley p. 392; Goldstein 17; O¡enberg 50; St 6138(3);Thes A10; ISTC il00189700; BHB 0315641.
O¡enberg, ‘Chronology of Hebrew Printing’, 298^315; Tishby,
K.iryat sefer, 60 (1985, i.e. 1986), 893^900, no. 17; Rivkind,‘Dik.duk.e sefarim’ [part 2], 280, no. 1; Rivkind,‘Dik.duk.e sefarim’[part 4], 402^3.Thought to be the ¢rst Hebrew book printed with a
two-pull press; see Michael Pollak, ‘The Daily Performance of a
Printing Press in 1476: Evidence from a Hebrew Incunable’, Gb
Jb (1974), 66^76; Avraham Rosenthal, ‘Some Remarks on ‘‘The
Daily Performance of a Printing Press in 1476’’’, Gb Jb (1979),
39^50, relating to Conat’s daily performance in printing Jacob
ben Asher: T. ur Orah. h.ayim (Mantua, 1476).
FIRST COPY

Conjugate leaves 5v/6r in the unsigned gathering [23], and conjugate leaves 2r/9v in the unsigned gathering [35] are printed withink of a di¡erent colour: see O¡enberg, ‘Chronology of Hebrew
Printing’, 310, note 34.
shelfmark: Auct. M 4.18.
SECOND COPY

Conjugate leaves 5v/6r in the unsigned gathering [37] are printed
with ink of a di¡erent colour: see O¡enberg, ‘Chronology ofHebrew Printing’, 310, note 34.
Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. fol. 242; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. fol. 262.

Heb 55 Kol bo
Possibly an early version of Aharon ben Jacob Hakohen of Lunel:
Orh.ot h.ayim. Rabbinical decisions by Barukh ben Isaac haKohen of Worms, Eliezer ben Nathan of Mayence, Isaac ofOrbelli, Jacob ben Meir Tam, Jonathan ben Jacob of Conca,
Joshua ben Levi, Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil.
[Italy: n. pr., c.1491^2] [Piove di Sacco, c.1485] [Salonica][Naples]. Folio.
Pr 7437; Cowley p. 197 [fragments], 226; Goldstein 76; O¡enberg
81; St 3589 & Addenda et Corrigenda, col. lxxxiii, p. 555; Thes
A94; ISTC ik00038300; BHB 0141233.
On copies with typographical variants in the ¢rst gathering see
Rivkind, ‘Dik.duk.e sefarim’ [part 1], 56^7, no. 4. On the dating of
this edition through watermark analysis see O¡enberg,‘Dating of
Kol Bo“’, 59^88. See Heb 32^3 and Heb 41.
FIRST COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. fol. 564; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. fol. 810.

Heb 57 Levi ben Gershom
Be’ur Sefer Iyov [Perush Iyov]. Poem bearing the acrostychon of
Nathan of Salo.
[Ferrara]: Abraham ben Hayyim, 14 May 1477. 8o.
Pr 5745; Cowley p. 393; Goldstein 19; O¡enberg 51; St 6138(15);Thes A12; ISTC il00189750; BHB 0309262.
Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 2], K.iryat
sefer, 60 (1985, i.e. 1986), 916^18, no. 22.
FIRST COPY

Fol. 63 is a duplicate of fol. 62. Fol. 71 is a duplicate of fol. 70.
Previous shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 5.
shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o IV.444.
SECOND COPY

Fol. 33 is a duplicate of fol. 32. Fol. 35 is a duplicate of fol. 34.
Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 238; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 255.

SECOND COPY

shelfmark: Opp. add. fol. II.173.
THIRD COPY

Fol. 13 in a guard-book of fragments.
Provenance: Donated by Samuel David Luzzatto (1800^1865) in
1855, according to an undated handwritten note by Moritz
Steinschneider (1816^1907).
Previous shelfmark: Heb. d.123.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. d. Heb. 3.

Heb 58 Maimonides, Moses
Mishneh Torah.
[Italy]: Solomon ben Judah, Obadjah ben Moses, [1473^5][Rome, c.1480]. Folio.
Pr 7340; Cowley p. 474; Goldstein 9; O¡enberg 87; St 6513(1);Thes A17; ISTC im00079400; BHB 0150063.
Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 5], K.iryat
sefer, 58 (1983, i.e. 1984), 843^6, no. 9; O¡enberg, ‘First Jewish
Printers’, 174^80.

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COPY

In two volumes, both damaged by ¢re.
Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736); vol. 1 has a bookplate of a copper-engraved fore-title-page depicting two angels, acrown, the signs of the Zodiac, theTemple in Jerusalem, and threebiblical events related to the holidays Simh.at Torah, Sukot
and Pesah.. The same book-plate, printed on parchment, isfound in Opp. fol. 583 (see Heb 76); for a di¡erent book-plate see
Heb. 10.
Previous shelfmark: Opp. fol. 559 [sic]; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. fol. 804^5.

Heb 59 Maimonides, Moses
Mishneh Torah.
[Spain or Portugal: Printer of Alfasi’s Halakhot, c.1480?] [Juan deLucena?]. Folio.
Cowley p. 197 [fragments]; Goldstein 103; O¡enberg 90; Thes
B36; ISTC im00079700; BHB 0313437.
Teicher, ‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, 235; Teicher, ‘Fragments ofUnknown’, 106.
COPY

Fols 5^18 in a guard-book of fragments. Fol. 13 is a duplicate offol. 12.Watermark ‘anchor’on fols 6 and 16.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. c.7.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. c. Heb. 3.

Heb 60 Maimonides, Moses
Mishneh Torah (part I). Sefer Mada¯.
[Spain, H|¤ jar?]: [Printer of Alfasi’s Halakhot] [Eliezer
Alantansi?], [1492?]. 8o.
Cowley p. 197 [fragments], 474; O¡enberg,‘Wat niet’, 147, no. [27].
A. Freimann, ‘Typographisches’, Zeitschrift fu«r Hebra«ische
Bibliographie, 12 (1908), 15.
Vertical chain-lines. Type is similar toThes B35^37, but more legible. See Teicher, ‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, 235; Teicher,‘Fragments of Unknown’, 105^6. Teicher supposes that ‘no morethan the Sefer Mada¯ and the introduction, remains of which still
exist, were ever printed’, see ‘Fragments of Unknown’, 106, note 7.
COPY

Fols 2^9 in a guard-book of fragments. Fol. 8 is a duplicate of fol.
3. Fol. 9 is a duplicate of fol. 6.Watermark ‘scissors’on fol. 9.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. d.83.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. d. Heb. 2.

Heb 61 Maimonides, Moses
Moreh nevukhim (trans. from Judaeo-Arabic into Hebrew bySamuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon, with table of contents by Judahben Solomon Al-Harizi).
[Italy: n. pr., c.1473^5] [Rome: Obadjah, Manasseh and Benjaminof Rome, 1469^73]. 4o.
Pr 7435; Cowley p. 482; Goldstein 8; O¡enberg 86; St 6513(100);
Thes A18; ISTC im00079800; BHB 0149985.
Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 5], K.iryat
sefer, 58 (1983, i.e. 1984), 839^42, no. 8; O¡enberg, ‘First Jewish
Printers’, 174^80.
COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).

[h eb 58 ^ h eb 63

Previous shelfmark: Opp. fol. 924; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. fol. 1103.

Heb 62 Mak.re Dardek.e [by Perez Trabot?]
Dictionary of biblical roots with explanations from Bible commentaries by David Kimhi and Solomon ben Isaac [in Hebrew,
including translations into Italian and Judaeo-Arabic written in
Hebrew characters].
[Naples: Joseph ben Jacob Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser], 8 Aug.
1488. Folio.
Pr 6730; Cowley p. 396; Goldstein 53; O¡enberg 91; St 3953; Thes
A61; ISTC im00100100; BHB 0149312.
See Yudlov 71^87.
COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. fol. 979; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. fol. 1160.

Heb 63 Mishnah (comm. Moses Maimonides).
Translations of commentary from Judaeo-Arabic into Hebrew,
including introductions and conclusions by Hayyim ben
Solomon ben Baka, Jacob ben Moses ben Aksai, Joseph ben
Isaac ibn Alfual, Judah ben Solomon Al-Harizi, Nathaniel ben
Joseph ibn Almoli, Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon, Solomon ben
Joseph ibn Jacob.
Includes laudatory poems by Solomon ben Joseph ibn Jacob,
Abraham ben Samuel ben Aldelma, Isaac ben Abraham ben
Josaph [sic]. Ed. Abraham Talmid Sefaradi.
Naples: Joshua Solomon Soncino, for Joseph ibn Piso, 8 May
1492. Folio.
Pr 6739; Cowley p. 441; Goldstein 47; O¡enberg 92; St 1982; Thes
A73; ISTC im00624700; BHB 0150614.
On typographical variants see A.Ya¯ari,‘¯Iyunim be-ink.unabulim¯Ivriyim’, K.iryat sefer, 24 (1947/8), 157^9; Y. Yudlov, The Israel
Mehlman Collection in the Jewish National and University
Library [Ginze Yis¤ ra˘el] (Jerusalem, 1984), no. 11.
FIRST COPY

Provenance: Edward Pococke (1604^1691); possibly the copy
used in preparing his Porta Mosis (Oxford, 1655); see C. Roth,‘Edward Pococke and the First Hebrew Printing in Oxford’, BLR
2 (1948), 215^20, repr. in C. Roth, Studies in Books and Booklore:
Essays in Jewish Bibliography and Allied Subjects (Farnborough,1972), 31^41; B. S. Hill, ‘The First Hebrew Printing in Oxford’, in
Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies1996/7,[89^90]. Acquired in 1693.
shelfmark: N 1.1 Jur.
SECOND COPY

In two volumes.
Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
shelfmark: Opp. fol. 2^3.
THIRD COPY

Fol. 13 in a guard-book of fragments, signed dalet. Text of
Kil˘ayim 6^7.
Provenance: Removed from the binding of Jacob Culi andothers, Sefer Me-¯Am lo¯ez, a Torah commentary in Ladino(Constantinople, 1730^76), Heb. c.98, vol. 3 (together with HebFrag 3^4).
Previous shelfmark: Heb. c.176.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. c. Heb. 5.

heb 64 ^heb 70]

i n v en tory of h e brew i ncu na bulaHeb 64 Mishnah
Nezik.in: Avot [Pirk.e avot] (comm. and intr. [Shemonah perak.im]
Moses Maimonides, trans. from Judaeo-Arabic into Hebrew bySamuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon).
[Soncino: Joshua Solomon Soncino, c.1486] [1485^6?]. 4o.
Pr 7295; Cowley p. 444; Goldstein 35; O¡enberg 93; St 1433; Thes
A41; ISTC im00624800; BHB 0151124
Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 5], K.iryat
sefer, 62 (1989/90), 385^7, no. 33.
COPY

Wanting last leaf.
Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1116(3); see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 879(3).

Heb 65 Moses ben Nahman
Perush ha-Torah [H. idushin be-ferushe ha-Torah]. Letter with anaccount of his journey to Palestine (Acre); Piyut; Prayer over thefall of Jerusalem.
[Rome: Obadjah, Manasseh and Benjamin of Rome, 1469^73].
Folio.
Pr 7341; Cowley p. 489; Goldstein 1; O¡enberg 96; St 6532(48);Thes A20; ISTC im00866140; BHB 0150430.
Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 5], K.iryat
sefer, 58 (1983, i.e. 1984), 825^9, no. 3; O¡enberg, ‘First Jewish
Printers’, 174^80.
COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmarks: Opp. fol. 246 (see K. ohelet David); Auct. M
4.1.
shelfmark: Opp. fol. 266.

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‘i.e. Dr. Heinemann?’; see St 6532(49)). A. Asher; no. 6 in one ofthe ¢rm’s catalogues.
shelfmark: Auct. M 4.22.

Heb 67 Moses ben Nahman
Perushe ha-Torah. Letter with account of his journey to Palestine(Acre); Prayer over the fall of Jerusalem; Introduction to
Devarim.
[Naples: Joseph ben Jacob Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser], 2 July 1490
[Joshua Solomon Soncino] [Isaac ben Judah ben David Cattorzi(de Quatorze)]. Folio.
Pr 6741; Cowley p. 489; Goldstein 57; O¡enberg 98; St 6532(50);Thes A65; ISTC im00866180; BHB 0150432.
See Yudlov 71^87. For the type see O¡enberg, ‘Untersuchungen’,
129^44. On watermarks see O¡enberg,‘Dating of Kol Bo“’, 59^88.
On typographical variants see Gershon Kohen, Sifre ha-defus harishonim: ink.unabulim [Hebrew incunabula, Mendel Gottesman
Library,Yeshivah University] (New York, 1984), no. 24.
COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. fol. 243; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. fol. 263.

Heb 68 Moses ben Nahman
Torat ha-adam (thirtieth and ¢nal chapter): Sha¯ar ha-gemul.
Naples: Joseph ben Jacob Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser, 23 Jan.
1490. 4o.
Pr 6733; Cowley p. 490; Goldstein 56; O¡enberg 99; St 6532(55);Thes A64; ISTC im00866200; BHB 0150444.
See Yudlov 71^87. For the type see O¡enberg, ‘Untersuchungen’,
129^44. On watermarks see O¡enberg,‘Dating of Kol Bo“’, 59^88.
FIRST COPY

Heb 66 Moses ben Nahman
Perush ha-Torah [H. idushe ha-Torah]. Note on the Shekel coin;
Piyut; Prayer over the fall of Jerusalem; Letter from Jerusalem tohis son.
Lisbon: Eliezer [Toledano], 15 July 1489. Folio.
Pr 9833; Cowley p. 487 & 489; Goldstein 91; O¡enberg 97; St6532(49); Thes B18; ISTC im00866160; BHB 0150431.
See M. Wiener, ‘Analekten [Teil] 2: Die Lissaboner Ausgabe desPentateuchcommentars von Nachmani’, in Monatsschrift fu«rGeschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums, 2 (1853), 280^2. On
watermarks see O¡enberg, ‘Dating of Kol Bo“’, 59^88. The acrostychon ‘Yigdal’ could indicate that Judah Gedalyah was involvedin the production: see M. Marx, History and Annals of Hebrew
Printing in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Cincinnati,1982), no. 20. On copies with typographical variants see A.
Ya¯ari,‘¯Iyunim be-ink.unabulim ¯Ivriyim’, K.iryat sefer, 24 (1947/8), 156^7.

Provenance: Thomas Marshall (1621^1685). Bequeathed in 1685.
shelfmark: Mar. 200.
SECOND COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1151; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 914.

Heb 69 Moses ben Jacob of Coucy
Sefer mitsvot gadol.
[Italy: n. pr., 1473^5] [Rome: Obadjah, Manasseh and Benjaminof Rome, 1469^73]. Folio.
Pr 7434; Cowley p. 464; Goldstein 7; O¡enberg 94; St 6453(1);Thes A19; ISTC im00866220; BHB 0314015.
Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 5], K.iryat
sefer, 58 (1983, i.e. 1984), 835^9, no. 8; O¡enberg, ‘First Jewish
Printers’, 174^80.

FIRST COPY

COPY

Provenance: Not recorded in Hyde, Catalogus (1674) or Fysher,
Catalogus.
Previous shelfmark: T 11. 18 Th.
shelfmark: Opp. add. fol. III.430.

First part only, text of Mitsvot lo ta¯as¤ eh. Blank leaves at the endof the last gathering, fols. [100^4].
shelfmark: Auct. M 4.23.

SECOND COPY

Provenance: Previously owned by Levin Joel Hertz, Moses ben
Abraham Broda, Isaac Sforno, Mainster ben Nahum Segal,
Jirmeyahu ben Mainster Segal (dated 5586, i.e. 1825/6, with noteHeb 70 Moses ben Jacob of Coucy
Sefer mitsvot gadol.
[Soncino]: Gershom Soncino, 19 Dec. 1488. Folio.

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Pr 7306; Cowley p. 464; Goldstein 58; O¡enberg 95; St 6453(2);Thes A48; ISTC im00866240; BHB 0149825.
Rivkind,‘Dik.duk.e sefarim’ [part 4], 403^4, no. 3, recording copies
with typographical and textual variants.
COPY

shelfmark: Opp. add. fol. III.415.

[h e b 70 ^ h eb 76[Soncino]: Joshua Solomon Soncino, 14 Jan. 1484. 4 o.
Pr 7293; Cowley p. 650; Goldstein 25; O¡enberg 57; St 6916(1);Thes A27; ISTC is00625250; BHB 0105929.
L. Zunz, Zur Geschichte und Literatur (Berlin, 1845), 165; Tishby,‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 5], K.iryat sefer, 62(1989/90), 375^9, no. 30.
COPY

Heb 71 Nathan ben JehielSefer he-¯Arukh.
[Rome: Obadjah, Manasseh and Benjamin of Rome, 1469^73].
Folio.
Pr 7342; Cowley p. 504; Goldstein 2; O¡enberg 100; St 6632(1);Thes A23; ISTC in00006500, BHB 0317611.
Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 5], K.iryat
sefer, 58 (1983, i.e. 1984), 829^31, no. 4; O¡enberg, ‘First Jewish
Printers’, 174^80.
COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. fol. 986; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. fol. 1167.

Heb 72 Solomon ben Abraham ibn Aderet
Responsa [Teshuvot she¯elot].
[Rome: Obadjah, Manasseh, and Benjamin of Rome, 1469^73].
4o.
Pr 7433; Cowley p. 646; Goldstein 6; O¡enberg 55; St 6891(24);Thes A25; ISTC is00625100; BHB 0176480.
Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 5], K.iryat
sefer, 58 (1983, i.e. 1984), 831^3, no. 5; O¡enberg, ‘First Jewish
Printers’, 174^80.
FIRST COPY

Previous shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 3.
shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o IV.443.
SECOND COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 679; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 655.

Heb 73 Solomon ben Isaac
Perush ha-Torah.
[Rome: Obadjah, Manasseh, and Benjamin of Rome, 1469^73].
4o.
Pr 7343; Cowley p. 654; Goldstein 3; O¡enberg 111; St 6927(2);Thes A21; ISTC is00625170; BHB 0309259.
Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 5], K.iryat
sefer, 58 (1983, i.e. 1984), 833^5, no. 9; O¡enberg, ‘First Jewish
Printers’, 174^80.
COPY

Wanting ¢rst leaf.
shelfmark: Auct. M 4.16.

Heb 74 Solomon ibn Gabirol (attrib.)
Mivh.ar ha-Peninim (trans. from Judaeo-Arabic into Hebrew by
Judah ibn Tibbon). Collection of maxims, proverbs, and moral
re£ections, many of them of Arabic origin (comm. attributed to
Simson Munay, corr. Solomon ben Perez Bonfoi Zarfati).

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1116(1); see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 879(1).

Heb 75 Talmud Bavli
Bava metsi¯a (comm. Solomon ben Isaac) and Tosafot [Hebrew
and Aramaic].
[Soncino: Joshua Solomon Soncino, c.1489]. Folio.
Cowley p. 197 [fragments]; Goldstein 41; O¡enberg 117; St (Suppl.
p. 487) 241b; Thes A50; ISTC it00015040.
COPY

Fol. 59 in a guard-book of fragments.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. d.83.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. d. Heb. 2.

Heb 76 Talmud Bavli
Berakhot (comm. Solomon ben Isaac). Moses Maimonides:
Perush ha-Mishnayot; Mordechai ben Hillel ha-Kohen: Sefer
Mordekhai; Tosafot; Pisk.e Tosafot [Hebrew and Aramaic].
Soncino: Joshua Solomon Soncino, 20 t.evet 5244 = 19 Dec. 1483.
Folio.
Pr 7292; Cowley p. 197 [fragments], 676; Goldstein 24; O¡enberg
119; St 1567; Thes A26; ISTC it00015080; BHB 0313451.
R. N. N. Rabbinovicz, Ma˘amar ¯al hadpasat ha-Talmud: toldot
hadpasat ha-Talmud, ed. A. M. Habermann (Jerusalem, 1951/2),
9^14; Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 5],
K.iryat sefer, 62 (1989/90), 369^75, no. 29; M. J. Heller, Printing
the Talmud: A History of the Earliest Printed Editions of the
Talmud (NewYork, 1992), 51^73, with a comprehensive bibliography at 427^35. Some copies have two additional leaves at the end
signed by the corrector Gabriel ben Aaron Strassburg, dated 6
Adar I 5244 [2 Feb. 1484]. These were probably inserted after thecompletion of Tractate Betsah, also corrected by Strassburg; seeHeb 77.
FIRST COPY

On parchment.
Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736); book-plate of acopper-engraved fore-title-page depicting two angels, a crown,
the signs of the Zodiac, theTemple in Jerusalem, and three biblicalscenes related to the holidays Simh.at Torah, Sukot and Pesah.. The
same book-plate, on paper, is found in Opp. fol. 804 (Heb 58). Fora di¡erent book-plate see Heb 10.
Previous shelfmark: Opp. fol. 375; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. fol. 583.
SECOND COPY

Fol. 33 in a guard-book of fragments. See O¡enberg, ‘British
Library and Bodleian’, 83.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. c.7.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. c. Heb. 3.

heb 77^heb 84]

i n v en tory of h e brew i ncu na bulaHeb 77 Talmud Bavli
Betsah (comm. Solomon ben Isaac). Moses Maimonides: Perush
ha-Mishnayot; Mordechai ben Hillel ha-Kohen: Sefer
Mordekhai; Tosafot; Pisk.e Tosafot [Hebrew and Aramaic] (corr.
Gabriel ben Aaron Strassburg).
[Soncino: Joshua Solomon Soncino], 2 Feb. 1484. [2 Jan. 1484].
Folio.
Pr 7291; Cowley p. 676; Goldstein 26; O¡enberg 122; St1586; Thes
A28; ISTC it00015140; BHB 0316574.
Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 5], K.iryat
sefer, 62 (1989/90), 379^83, no. 31.

Heb 81 Targum Onk.elos [Aramaic].
[Faro]: Samuel Porteira?, for Samuel Gacon, [1487][Constantinople?] [ c.1487^9] [before 1490]. Folio.
Teicher, ‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, 235; Teicher, ‘Notes on
Hebrew Incunables’, 61^62; Teicher, ‘Fragments of Unknown’,
108; Neubauer 2422/10; A. Shisha, ‘S¤arid mi-Targum Onk.elos
le-farashat Mi-K
. ets, defus ink.unabeli’, Moriyah, 12,7^9 (1984/5),
23^5.
Unvocalized. Printed in two columns, 36 lines to a page.
Neubauer suggests ‘Constantinople’, Morris Lutzky ‘Faro, before
1490’ (see Interleaved Cowley).

COPY

COPY

O¡enberg,‘British Library and Bodleian’, 83.
shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o II.294(1).

Fols 55bis and 56. Text of Be-reshit viii:22^xiv:4.
shelfmark: MS. Opp. add. fol. 56.

Heb 78 Talmud Bavli

Heb 82 Te¢lot

K. idushin (comm. Solomon ben Isaac) [Hebrew and Aramaic].
[Guadalajara: Solomon Alkabiz, after 1482] [Toledo: n. pr.,c.1482]. Folio.
Cowley p. 197 [fragments], 679; Goldstein 85; O¡enberg 132;
ISTC it00015320.
Adler, ‘Talmud Printing’, 81^4; E. N. Adler, ‘Talmud Incunablesof Spain and Portugal’, in Jewish Studies in Memory of George A.
Kohut, (New York, 1935), 1^4.
Guadalajara or Toledo suggested by Adler. L. Goldschmidt,
Hebrew Incunables (Oxford, 1948), 15, who erroneously attributes
the edition to Fez or Salonica, sixteenth century.
COPY

Five fragments, fols 19a-e in a guard-book of fragments.
Text corresponds to fol. 35a line 11^line 27 (19d); fol. 37a line 10^line 37 (19e); fol. 39a line 4^line 20 (19c); fol. 53b line 8^fol. 54bline 3 (19a); fol. 54b line 4^line 32 (19b) of the Vilna edition.
Provenance: Cowley lists only fragments a-c. Fragments d-e were
probably identi¢ed or acquired later.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. c7.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. c. Heb. 3.

Heb 79 Talmud Bavli
Mo¯ed k.at.an (comm. Solomon ben Isaac) [Hebrew and Aramaic].
[Guadalajara: Solomon Alkabiz, c.1480]. Folio.
Dimitrovsky pp. 240^61; O¡enberg 130; ISTC it00015380.
COPY

Two leaves. Text corresponds to fol. 22a line 6^fol. 22b line 16(fol. 1); fol. 28b l. 20 cont. (fol. 2) of the Vilna edition. SeeO¡enberg,‘British Library and Bodleian’, 83.
shelfmark: Opp. add. fol. III.561.

Heb 80 Talmud Bavli
Nidah (comm. Solomon ben Isaac). Tosafot and Pisk.e Tosafot[Hebrew and Aramaic].
[Soncino: Joshua Solomon Soncino], 23 July 1489. Folio.
Pr 7307; Cowley p. 680; Goldstein 43; O¡enberg131; St1801;Thes
A54; ISTC it00015400.
COPY

O¡enberg,‘British Library and Bodleian’, 83.
shelfmark: Opp. add. fol. III.448.

2731

Mah.zor (Roman rite). Texts by Elijah Zaken, Judah ha-Levi,
Moses ben Jekutiel min ha-Adumim [De Rossi]: Sefer ha-tadir,Moses Maimonides, Solomon ben Isaac, and Solomon ibn
Gabirol.
Soncino and Casal Maggiore: Israel Nathan Soncino and sons,between 10 Sept. and 9 Oct. 1485, and 21 and 29 Aug. 1486. Folio.
Pr 7297; Cowley p. 532; Goldstein 33; O¡enberg 83; St 2576; Thes
A37; ISTC im00007850; BHB 0172337.
O¡enberg, ‘British Library and Bodleian’, 83; Tishby, ‘Defuse¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 7], K.iryat sefer, 64 (1992/3),
698^709, no. 39; Y. Yudlov, ‘ha-Mah.zorim ha-rishonim ke-minhag Bene Roma, S¤ontsino 5246 [1485/6]-Fano 5264 [1503/4]’,
K.iryat sefer, 64 (1992/3), 1435^48.
COPY

shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o V.50.

Heb 83 Te¢lot
Selih.ot (Roman rite) [Seder Tah.anunim].
Soncino: [Joshua Solomon Soncino], 16 May 1487. 4o.
Pr 7303; Cowley p. 566; Goldstein 36; O¡enberg 115; St 2920;
Thes A40; ISTC it00005800; BHB 0313447.
Tishby, ‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim’ [part 7], K.iryat
sefer, 64 (1992/3), 709^14, no. 40.
COPYProvenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1590; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 1323.

Heb 84 Te¢lot
Sidur (Sephardic rite) [Hebrew and Ladino]. With Tehilim andtexts by Solomon ibn Gabirol and Isaac ben Samuel Mor [Mar?]
Hayyim. Some parts follow Ashkenazic and Italian rite, particularly that of Rome. Ed. Moses ben Shem-Tov ibn Habib.
Naples: Joshua Solomon Soncino, 25 May 1490 [Brescia:
Gershom Soncino, c.1492]. 8o.
Pr 7025; Cowley p. 197 [fragments], 554; O¡enberg 109 (incl. 38);
St. 2384; Thes A90, A91, A92; ISTC it00055770; BHB 0306778.
Teicher, ‘Notes on Hebrew Incunables’, 55; Teicher, ‘Hebrew
Printed Fragments’, 235; D. Goldschmidt, ‘¯Al defus k.adum shel
Mah.zor Sefaradi’, K.iryat sefer, 47 (1972), 711^19.

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FIRST COPY

Fragment of 32 leaves. On parchment. Signatures dalet to zayin.
Previous shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 1.7*.
shelfmark: Opp. add. 12o 52*.
SECOND COPY

Fols 13 and 15 in a guard-book of fragments.
Provenance: From the Cairo Genizah; for details of acquisition
see Heb 15(1).
Previous shelfmark: Heb. e.87.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5.

Heb 85 Te¢lot
Sidur?
[N. pl.: Gershom Soncino?, n. d.]. 8 o.
Cowley p. 197 [fragments].
Horizontal laid lines. 13 lines of text. Text size: 115 ¿ 70 mm. Sheetor gathering numbering in Hebrew letters. Three sizes of vocalized square Ashkenazi-Italian type. Type and tetragrammaton
similar to Thes A83 (Barco). See M. Beit-Arie¤ , ‘The Relationshipbetween Early Hebrew Printing and Handwritten Books:
Attachment or Detachment’, in M. Beit-Arie¤, The Makings of theMedieval Hebrew Book: Studies in Palaeography and Codicology(Jerusalem, 1993), 272^5.
COPY

Fols 25^7 in a guard-book of fragments.
Provenance: Probably removed from the binding of a Latin breviary (Paris, 1674), 4o Z 39 Th.; Heb-Frags 5 and 17 have the same
provenance.
Previous shelfmarks: 4o Z 39 Th.; Heb. e.116.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 6.

Hebrew Post-incunables (previously thought to be
incunables)
Heb-Post 1 Almanac: Calendar for the years
5025^6000.
Broadsheet, verso of the last page of Menahem ben Aaron ibn
Zerah. (1310^1385): Tsedah la-derekh u-zevadin le-orh.a.
Sabbioneta: Vincenzo Conti, 1567 or 1568? [Italy, c.1500]. 4o .
Cowley p. 132; Goldstein 105; O¡enberg,Wat niet, 147, no. [24]; St
3617 & 6368; ISTC ia00522945.
COPY

Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. 4o 499; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. 4o 531.

Heb-Post 2 Biblia Hebraica
Torah with Haft.arot (Sephardic rite) and with Targum Onk.elos(comm. Solomon ben Isaac and David Kimhi) [Hebrew andAramaic].
Constantinople: David and Samuel Ibn Nah.mias, Mar./Apr.
1505 [Lisbon: Samuel Dortas, before 1501] [Spain: SamuelDortas, 1492] [Leiria: Samuel Dortas, 1495?] [Salonica, c.1520].
Folio.
Cowley, p. 76; O¡enberg,Wat niet, 145, no. [4].
Two sizes of square Sephardic type, vocalized. Small semi-cursive
Sephardic type, unvocalized. Dilated letters alef, he, resh, tav.

[h eb 84 ^ h eb -po st 5

Broken letter shin used as line-¢lling device. Running headline.
Foliation in Hebrew characters. Compare Heb 28 above.
Place and date identi¢ed by O¡enberg following an examinationof the copy in Parma, Palatina. See A. K. O¡enberg, ‘Literature
on Hebrew Incunabula since the Second World War’, inO¡enberg, Choice of Corals, 26^7; Teicher, ‘Notes on Hebrew
Incunables’, 61^2; Teicher, ‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, 236;
Teicher, ‘Fragments of Unknown’, 106^7. For previous attributions see Cowley; J. J. Cohen, Manuscripts and Rare Books: An
Exhibition from the Collections of the Jewish National andUniversity Library (Jerusalem, 1970), no. 83; Meyer, Hebrew
Printing, no. 253; Meyer,‘Incunabula’, no. 9.
FIRST COPY

Incomplete. Reproductions of fols 81r and 88r from this copy arefound in Teicher,‘Unidenti¢ed Hebrew Incunable’, 128^36.
shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o V.282.
SECOND COPY

Fols 23^5 in a guard-book of fragments.Text of Shemot xxviii:38^
xxix:34 (fols 23^4),Devarim iv:21^34 (fol. 25). Fol. 24 withwatermark.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. c.7.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. c. Heb. 3.

Heb-Post 3 Te¢lot
Sidur (Ashkenazic rite).
[Soncino: Solomon Soncino, 1497^1506?] [after 1500] [Soncino,
1495?] [Brescia] [Pesaro, 1508] [Pesaro: Gershom Soncino, 1511^
17]. 8o.
Pr 7443; Goldstein 71; O¡enberg,Wat niet, 150, no. [54]; St 2387;
Thes A87; ISTC it00055730.
For the dating, based on watermark evidence (‘scales within a circle’), see Y. Yudlov, ‘A New Hebrew Incunable (?) in the JNUL’,
Books & People, 6 (1993), 13. See also L. Goldschmidt, Hebrew
Incunables (Oxford, 1948), 57.
COPY

Fols 27^8 in a guard-book of fragments. Teicher, ‘Notes on
Hebrew Incunables’, 60, no. 7.
Provenance: From the Cairo Genizah; for details of acquisition
see Heb 15(1).
Previous shelfmark: Heb. e.87.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5.

Heb-Post 4 Te¢lot
Mah.zor (Roman rite).
Fano [Gershom Soncino, after 13 Oct. 1503] [Soncino?, c.1500?].
Folio.
Pr 7441; Cowley p. 532; Goldstein 69; O¡enberg,Wat niet, 147, no.
[25]; St 2577; Thes A93; ISTC im00007900.
Y. Yudlov, ‘ha-Mah.zorim ha-rishonim ke-minhag Bene Roma,S¤ontsino 5246 [1485/86]-Fano 5264 [1503/04]’, K.iryat sefer, 64(1992/3), 1435^48; Meyer, Hebrew Printing, no. 96.
Second edition.
COPY

shelfmark: Auct. M 4.13.

Heb-Post 5 Te¢lot
Mah.zor (Catalan rite).
Salonica: Moses Soncino, 1526 [Spain?, c.1500?]. 4o.

heb-post 5^heb-frag 5]

i n v en tory of h e brew i ncu na bula

Pr 9620; Cowley p. 532; St 2446; ISTC im00007950.
COPY

Imperfect.
shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o IV.295.

Heb-Post 6 Solomon Alami
Igeret ha-tokheh.ah veha-emunah [Igeret musar].
[Constantinople: n. pr., c.1510] [Italy?] [15th century?]. 4o.
Pr 7439; Cowley p. 646; Goldstein 106; O¡enberg, Wat niet, 147,
no. [30]; St 6893,5; ISTC is00625050.
Also ascribed to Solomon ben Lahmis.
COPY

shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o V.267.

Heb-Post 7 Talmud Bavli
Megilah (comm. Solomon ben Isaac); Tosafot.
[Pesaro: Gershom Soncino, 1511] [Soncino: Joshua Solomon
Soncino, c.1485]. 4o.
Pr 7296; Cowley p. 679; EJ 68; Goldstein 28; O¡enberg,Wat niet,
149, no. [50]; St 1413; Thes A33; ISTC it00015360.
COPY

shelfmark: Opp. add. 4o II.294(2).

2733

Signatures in Hebrew letters, Arabic numerals and Roman letters.
With running headlines. Tetragrammaton similar to Thes B44.
COPY

Fol. 1 in a guard-book of fragments. Text corresponds to fols 25aand 25b of the Vilna edition.
Provenance: Removed from the binding of Heb. c.98, vol. 3; seeHeb 63(3).
Previous shelfmark: Heb. c.176.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. c. Heb. 5.

Heb-Frag 3 Talmud Bavli
Bava batra (comm. Solomon ben Isaac), Tosafot and Pisk.e
Tosafot [Hebrew and Aramaic].
[Pesaro?: Gershom Soncino, 1508^19?]. Folio.
Cowley p. 675; St 1551.
M. J. Heller, Printing theTalmud: A History of the Earliest Printed
Editions of the Talmud (New York, 1992), 97^118, with
illustrations.
Two sizes of square Sephardic type, semi-cursive Sephardic type.
Dilated letters alef, lamed, kaf, mem so¢t, shin, tav. Signatures in
Hebrew letters, Arabic numerals, and Roman letters. With running headlines. Tetragrammaton similar to Thes B44.
FIRST COPY

Fragments of Fifteenth- or Early Sixteenthcentury Hebrew Editions (yet to be fully identi¢ed)
Heb-Frag 1 Biblia Hebraica[Torah?, Megilot?] Haft.arot (Sephardic rite).
[Constantinople?: Nahmias?, c.1510^22?]. Folio.
Recorded in Interleaved Cowley. Two sizes of square Sephardic
type and small semi-cursive Sephardic type. Printed in two columns.Vocalized. Dilated letters alef, he, mem so¢t, resh, shin.

Fol. 2 misbound.
Provenance: David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Opp. fol. 466; see K. ohelet David.
shelfmark: Opp. fol. 672.
SECOND COPY

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Fol. 2 in a guard-book of fragments. Leaf Kaf-Bet6, text corresponding to fol. 139b of the Vilna edition.
Provenance: Removed from the binding of Heb. c.98, vol. 3; seeHeb 63(3) and Heb-Frag 4.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. c.176.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. c. Heb. 5.

Fol. 40 in a guard-book of fragments.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. c.7.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. c. Heb. 3.

Heb-Frag 4 Talmud Bavli

Heb-Frag 1A Biblia Hebraica
Torah?
[Spain?: Samuel Dortas?, before 1501?]. 4o or Folio?
Teicher, ‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, 236; Teicher, ‘Fragments ofUnknown’, 106^7.
Printed in two columns. Column width: 62 mm.With Hebrew signature. Square Sephardic type, vocalized. Dilated letters lamed,
mem so¢t, resh, tav. Typographically similar to Thes B27,2.
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Fol. 37 in a guard-book of fragments. Part of a watermark visible.
Text of Be-reshit xxx:1^39.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. c.7.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. c. Heb.3.

Heb-Frag 2 Talmud Bavli¯Arakhin (comm. Solomon ben Isaac), Tosafot and Pisk.e Tosafot[Hebrew and Aramaic].
[Pesaro?: Bene Soncino, 1511?]. Folio.
Two sizes of square Sephardic type and semi-cursive Sephardic
type. Dilated letters alef, lamed, kaf, mem so¢t, shin, tav.

Shabat (comm. Solomon ben Isaac), Tosafot and Pisk.e Tosafot[Hebrew and Aramaic].
[Pesaro?: Gershom Soncino, 1508^19?]. Folio.
Two sizes of square Sephardic type, semi-cursive Sephardic type.
Dilated letters alef, lamed, kaf, mem so¢t, shin, tav. Signatures in
Hebrew letters, Arabic numerals, and Roman letters. With running headlines. Tetragrammaton similar to Thes B44.
COPY

Fols 3^7 in a guard-book of fragments. Text corresponds to fols
107a-b (fol. 3); 108a-b (fol. 4); 133a (fol. 5, with passages from
Talmud Bavli: Nazir fol. 41b?); 143a-b (fol. 6); 158b-159a (fol. 7,
index to Pisk.e Tosafot) of the Vilna edition.
Several di¡erent watermarks, one of which is ‘anchor with a star’.
Provenance: Removed from the binding of Heb. c.98, vol. 3; seeHeb 63(3) and Heb-Frag 3.
Previous shelfmark: Heb. c.176.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. c. Heb. 5.

Heb-Frag 5 Talmud Bavli
Derekh erets zut.a.
[N. pl.: Bene Soncino?, c.1500?]. 8o.

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Vertical chain-lines. 13 lines of text. Text size: 113 ¿ 63 mm. Typesimilar to Thes A69. Catchwords on the bottom of each page.
Hebrew signatures.

[h eb -f r ag 5 ^ h eb -f r ag 12

Provenance: From the Cairo Genizah?
Previous shelfmark: Heb. e.87.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5.

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Fols 23^4 in a guard-book of fragments, one consecutive sheet.
Text of chapters 3:4^7:11.
Provenance: Probably removed from binding of 4o Z 39 Th.; seeHeb 85 and Heb-Frag 17.
Previous shelfmarks: 4o Z 39 Th.; Heb. e.116.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 6.

Te¢lot arranged by shelfmark
Heb-Frag 6 Te¢lot
Sidur?
[Constantinople?: n. pr., after 1500?]. 8o.
Horizontal laid lines. 13 lines of text. Text size: 103 ¿ 68 mm. Twosizes of vocalized square Sephardic type, instructions in unvocalized semi-cursive Sephardic type. Justi¢cation of left margins byinsertion of single letters and anticipation of next word. Ligatureof alef and lamed. Dilated letter alef. Type similar to Thes B44.
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Fols 18^19 in a guard-book of fragments. Text of Tehilim cvii:30^
cix:2.
Provenance: From the Cairo Genizah?
Previous shelfmark: Heb. e.87.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5.

Heb-Frag 7 Te¢lot
Sidur?
[N. pl.: n. pr., n. d.]. 8o.
Horizontal laid lines; c.16 lines of text. Text size: 124 ¿ 72 mm.
Two sizes of vocalized square Sephardic type, one size of unvocalized square Sephardic type and instructions in unvocalized semicursive Sephardic type. With catchword. Justi¢cation of left margins by anticipation of the ¢rst letter of the next word.
Tetragrammaton (two yods) and type similar to B43. Sephardic
semi-cursive and large square ayin similar to Thes C1.
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Fol. 20 in a guard-book of fragments.
Provenance: From the Cairo Genizah?
Previous shelfmark: Heb. e.87.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5.

Heb-Frag 8 Te¢lot
Mah.zor?
[N. pl.: Bene Soncino?, n. d.] [Constantinople?, c.1510][Salonica?]. 8o.
Horizontal laid lines. Main text in vocalized square Sephardic
type. Unvocalized large square Sephardic type and unvocalizedsemi-cursive Sephardic type. Text width 70 mm. Dilated letters
mem so¢t, shin. Ligature alef and lamed. See fragment[Portugal?] described by A. Ya¯ari, ‘Defusim k.edumim’, K.iryat
sefer, 22 (1946/7), 234^6, no. 3.
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Fol. 26 in a guard-book of fragments. No tetragrammaton. See
Heb-Frags 6, 8 and 9.

Heb-Frag 9 Te¢lot
Mah.zor?
[N. pl.: Bene Soncino?, n. d.] [Constantinople?, c.1510]. 8o.
Horizontal laid lines. 18 lines of text. Main text in vocalized
square Sephardic type. Unvocalized large square Sephardic typeand unvocalized semi-cursive Sephardic type. Text size: 111 ¿ 70
mm. Tetragrammaton similar to Thes A35; layout and type have
similarities with Thes B44. Dilated letters alef, he, kaf, kaf so¢t,
lamed, mem so¢t, resh, tav.
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Fols 29^32 in a guard-book of fragments. See Heb-Frags 5, 7^9.
Provenance: From the Cairo Genizah?
Previous shelfmark: Heb. e.87.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5.

Heb-Frag 10 Te¢lot
Sidur? (Sephardic rite).
[N. pl.: Bene Soncino?, n. d.] [Constantinople?: c.1510?] [Spain?][Eliezer Toledano?]. 8o.
18 lines. Horizontal laid lines. Text size: 112 ¿ 70 mm. Two sizes of
unvocalized square Sephardic type, main text in vocalized square
Sephardic type. Dilated letters bet, he. Tetragrammaton similar to
Thes B44.
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Fol. 33 in a guard-book of fragments. See Heb-Frags 5^6, 8^9.
Provenance: From the Cairo Genizah?
Previous shelfmark: Heb. e.87.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5.

Heb-Frag 11 Te¢lot
Sidur?
[N. pl.: Bene Soncino?, n. d.] [Constantinople?, c.1510] [Bologna?][Soncino?]. 8o.
18 lines of text. Horizontal laid lines.Text size: 112 ¿ 70 mm. Maintext in vocalized square Sephardic type, two sizes of unvocalized
square Sephardic type.
Ligature alef and lamed. Dilated letters mem so¢t, tav.
Tetragrammaton similar toThes A35 and Thes B47. See fragment[Portugal?] described by A. Ya¯ari, ‘Defusim k.edumim’, K.iryat
sefer, 22 (1946/7), 234^6, no. 3.
COPY

Fol. 34 in a guard-book of fragments. See Heb-Frags 5^7 and 9.
Provenance: From the Cairo Genizah?
Previous shelfmark: Heb. e.87.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5.

Heb-Frag 12 Te¢lot
K. inot? [Mah.zor?].
[N. pl.: Bene Soncino?, n. d.] [Constantinople?, c.1510]. 8o.
Horizontal laid lines. 18 lines of text.Vocalized square Sephardic
type and unvocalized large square Sephardic type. Text size:
111 ¿ 70 mm. Tetragrammaton similar to Thes A35. Dilatedheb-frag 12^heb-frag 18]

i n v en tory of h e brew i ncu na bulaletters alef, he, kaf, lamed, mem so¢t, resh, tav. With signature in
Hebrew.
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Fols 35^6 in a guard-book of fragments.
See Heb-Frags 5^8.
Provenance: From the Cairo Genizah?
Previous shelfmark: Heb. e.87.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5.

Heb-Frag 13 Te¢lot
Sidur?
[Spain?: n. pr., n. d.]. 8o.
Horizontal laid lines. 18 lines of text. Main text in vocalized
square Sephardic type, large unvocalized Sephardic type. Text
size: 111 ¿ 70 mm. Dilated letters alef, mem so¢t, tav. Justi¢cationof left margin by anticipation of the ¢rst letter of the next word.
Some similarities with Thes B44. The word rabbi is abbreviatedwith a superscript dot.
COPY

Fol. 37 in a guard-book of fragments. Text of Mishnah: Shabat
2:1^6.
Provenance: From the Cairo Genizah?
Previous shelfmark: Heb. e.87.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5.

Heb-Frag 14 Te¢lot
Sidur? [Occasional prayer?]. With a text of praise for Sultan
Bayezid II (Dec. 1447 or Jan. 1448^26 May 1512).
[Constantinople?: n. pr.], before 26 May 1512. 8o.
No chain or laid lines discernible. Text width 69 mm. Vocalized
square Sephardic type and large square unvocalized Sephardic
type. Dilated letters alef, kaf so¢t, mem so¢t. Type and tetragrammaton similar to Thes B44. Justi¢cation of left margins by anticipation of the ¢rst letter of the next word.
COPY

Fol. 38 in a guard-book of fragments.
Provenance: From the Cairo Genizah?
Previous shelfmark: Heb. e.87.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5.

Heb-Frag 15 Te¢lot
Mah.zor (Sephardic rite).With instructions in Ladino.
[Constantinople?: n. pr., after 1500?]. 12 o.
Vertical laid lines. 13 lines of text. Text size: 72 ¿ 52 mm. Withpagination in Arabic numerals at top of the page. With Hebrew
catchword on page verso. Dilated letter mem so¢t. Star or sun
sign at beginning of paragraph. Tetragrammaton (two yods) andlayout similar to Thes B43. Type similar to Thes A99 and B43.
COPY

Fol. 49 in a guard-book of fragments. Text of Tehilim xxix:1.
Provenance: From the Cairo Genizah?
Previous shelfmark: Heb. e.87.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5.

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Heb-Frag 16 [Te¢lot?][Mah.zor?]. [Azharot?] [Mitsv.ot ta¯as¤ eh v.e-lo ta¯as¤ eh] [613mitsv.ot].
[N. pl.: n. pr., after 1500?]. 8o or 12o.
Horizontal laid lines, barely visible. 22 lines of text. Text size:
103 ¿ 70 mm. Sheet size 143 ¿ 98 mm. Small unvocalized square
Ashkenazic type, similar to Thes A87. Letter bet corrupted witha dot similar to dagesh. Many typographic errors. Justi¢cation ofleft margins by anticipation of the ¢rst letters of the next word.
Some mitsv.ot are headed ‘asur’ and ‘v.e-mutarin’, some are numbered (32, 33). The enumeration of mitsv.ot does not correspondto that of Moses Maimonides.
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Fol. 52 in a guard-book of fragments.
Provenance: From the Cairo Genizah?
Previous shelfmark: Heb. e.87.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5.

Heb-Frag 17 Te¢lot
Sidur?
[Salonica?: n. pr., before 1501?]. 8o.
19 lines. Text size: 100 ¿ 59 mm. Text of Mishnah in two sizes ofsquare Sephardic type, instructions in semi-cursive Sephardic
type. Justi¢cation of left margin by anticipation of ¢rst letter ofnext word. Ligature of alef and lamed. Signature in Hebrew at bottom of the rectos.
COPY

Fol. 28 in a guard-book of fragments. Part of a watermark discernible (‘circle’?). Text of Mishnah: Midot 1:1^2, with prayer
instructions.
Provenance: Probably retrieved from binding of 4o Z 39 Th.; seeHeb 85 and Heb-Frag 5.
Previous shelfmarks: 4o Z 39 Th.; Heb. e.116.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 6.

Heb-Frag 18 Te¢lot
K. inot (Sephardic rite).
[Mediterranean region?: n. pr., after 1500?] [Lisbon?: Eliezer
Toledano?]. 8o.
18 lines, two sizes of square vocalized type, small square unvocalized type. Dilated letters bet, kaf, kaf so¢t, mem so¢t, resh, shin,tav. Text size: 113 ¿ 71 mm. Watermark is countermark ‘B’ on fol.
17.Tetragrammaton similar toThes B44. Similar in type and number of lines to a fragment in the Wineman collection: see David
Waiman, Wineman Family Collection of Incunables (London,[1989]), no. 58. See Sidur: Me˘ah berakhot, Fano 1503 (St 2062;
Goldstein 93; O¡enberg,Wat niet, 148, no. [38]).
COPY

Fols 17 and 19 in a guard-book of fragments.
Teicher,‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, 235.
Previously bound with KitabT. alab al-h.ikhmah, text of Mishle andtranslation into Judaeo-Arabic and commentary in JudaeoArabic by Saadiah Gaon written in Oriental Hebrew script(twelfth to fourteenth centuries), MS. Poc. 70 (Neubauer 119).
Provenance (of MS. Poc. 70): Edward Pococke (1604^1691).
Acquired in 1693.
Previous shelfmarks: MS. Poc. 70; Heb. e.175.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 7.

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Heb-Frag 19 Te¢lot
Sidur?.With instructions in Yiddish.
[N. pl.: Bene Soncino?, n. d.]. 8 o.
16 lines of text. Only horizontal laid lines visible. Text size:
140 ¿ 77 mm. Three sizes of vocalized square Ashkenazic type.
Yiddish instructions in semi-cursive Sephardic type.
Typographic similarities with Thes A83 (Barco). Catchwords atthe bottom of each page. See M. Beit-Arie¤ , The Makings of theMedieval Hebrew Book: Studies in Palaeography and Codicology(Jerusalem, 1993), 272^5.

[h eb -f r ag 19 ^ h eb -not 2

Hebrew Incunables NOT found in the Bodleian
Library
Heb-Not 1 Biblia Hebraica
Torah, Nevi˘im, Ketuvim. With Targum Onk.elos [Hebrew andAramaic].
[H|¤ jar?: Eliezer Alantansi?, n. d.]. Folio (?).
O¡enberg, Wat niet, 144^5, no. [3]; Meyer, Hebrew Printing, no.
229; Teicher,‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, 235 (‘folio Bible’).
See Heb 14 above.

COPY

Fols 18^19 in a guard-book of fragments.
Provenance: Removed from binding of Talmud Bavli: Shabat(Frankfurt an der Oder, c.1693^4), Opp. fol. 598.
Provenance (of Opp. fol. 598): David Oppenheimer (1664^1736).
Previous shelfmark: Heb. e.116.
shelfmark: Vet. Or. e. Heb. 6.

Heb-Not 2 Isaac ibn Sahula
Meshal ha-k.admoni.
[Brescia: Gershom Soncino, 1490^2]. 4 o.
Pr 7309; Goldstein 60; O¡enberg 59; St 5415(1); Thes A76; ISTC
ii00175700.
Erroneous attribution to the Bodleian probably goes back to
Proctor. Sander and Go¡ followed Proctor. ISTC followed Go¡.
O¡enberg followed Proctor and Sander. Goldstein is accurate.
For further reference see Marx, ‘Gershom Soncino’, I-X, note 22;
Esther Bienenfeld, Meshal ha-k.admoni by Isaac b. Solomon ibn
Sahula [Brescia: Gershom Soncino, ca. 1491]: The Book and its
Illustrations, MLS thesis supervised by L. Avrin (Jerusalem,1991), 97^102 (bibliography). See Heb 37.

Concordances

Table 1. Robert Proctor, Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum, with Notes of those in the Bodleian Library (London,
1898^1903).
ProctorInventory
6
7
15
18
20
22
24
28
30
36
37
44
46
49
59
60
75
78

Table 2.
CowleyProctor

5745
5746
6557
6726
6727
6728
6729
6730
6731
6732
6733
6734
6735
6736
6739

Inventory

ProctorInventory

79
81
85
57
40
8
13
11
12
1
62
54
3
68
32
38
2
63

6740
6741
6742
6902A
6903
6904
6905
6906
6907
7021
7022
7023
7024
7025
7231
7291
7292
7293

23
67
33
40
34
53
52
56
47
35
21
26
27
84
39
77
76
74

Proctor
7294
7295
7297
7298
7299
7300
7302
7303
7305
7306
7307
7330
7340
7341
7342
7343
7433
7434

Inventory
48
64
82
9
10
51
43
83
16
70
80
5
58
65
71
73
72
69

Proctor
7435
7436
7437
7442
9587
9599
9601
9602
9833
9834
9835
9836
9838
9840

Inventory
61
4
55
45
41
42
14
17
66
31
19
25
50
29

Arthur E. Cowley, AConcise Catalogue of the Hebrew Printed Books in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1929).
Inventory
7
15
20
23
24
28
30
36
42
75
81
85

Cowley
14
47
55
74
75
145
150
166
197

Inventory

1
2
3
4^5, 8^13
14, 16^17, 19,
21^22, 25^27, 29
31
32^33
34
6^7, 15, 18^21,
23^24, 28, 30, 33,
36, 49, 55, 59^60,

Cowley
226
254
274
288
289
299
311
312
319
327
331

Inventory

75^76, 78, 84^8555
35
37
39, 43^44
40^41, 45
38
47^48
46
50
51
52

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Cowley
362
374
392
393
396
441
444
464
474
480
482
487

Inventory
53
54
56
57
62
63
64
69^70
58^60
63
61
66

Cowley
489
490
504
532
554
566
646
650
654
676
679
680

Inventory
65^67
68
71
82
84
83
72
74
73
76^77
78
79^80

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Table 3.
Goldstein

1
2
3

i n v en tory of h ebr ew i ncu na bulaDavid Goldstein, Hebrew Incunables in the British Isles: A Preliminary Census (London, 1985).
Inventory
6
7
15
18
24
28
30
36
46
49
60
79
81
85
65
71
73

Goldstein
6
7
8
9
10
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
23
24
25

Inventory
72
69
61
58
39
40
34
53
52
56
47
57
8
5
4
76
74

Goldstein
26
27
29
30
33
34
35
36
39
41
43
44
45
46
47
48
49

Inventory
77
48
9
51
82
10
64
83
16
75
80
84
33
20
63
23
12

Goldstein
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
61
62
63
64
67
68
70
72

Inventory
11
13
1
62
54
3
68
67
70
35
21
26
27
45
37
43
32

Goldstein
73
74
75
76
81
85
86
88
89
91
92
94
95
98
102
103
104

Inventory
38
2
22
55
41
78
42
14
17
66
31
19
25
29
50
59
44

Table 4. Adri K. O¡enberg and C. Moed-Van Walraven, Hebrew Incunabula in Public Collections: A First International Census, Bibliotheca
humanistica et reformatorica, 97 (Nieuwkoop, 1990).
Census

1
3
4
6
9
10
11
12
13

Inventory

CensusInventory

15
18
22
28
30
49
60
81
85
31
51
36
2
3
16
23
27
8

15
16
17
18
19
20
22
23
25
27
29
32
34
35
36(B)
38
43
45

14
17
19
20
21
24
26
6
7
9
10
25
5
12
4
84
11
29

Census
46
48
50
51
55
56
57
58
60
61
62
63
65
69
70
73
75
76

Inventory
13
34
56
57
72
1
74
35
37
39
43
44
42
45
40
41
47
48

Census
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
86
87
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98

Inventory
46
50
52
53
55
38
82
61
58
59
62
63
64
69
70
65
66
67

Census
99
100
102
105
106
109
111
115
117
119
122
130
131
132

Inventory
68
71
54
32
33
84
73
83
75
76
77
79
80
78

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Table 5. Moritz Steinschneider, Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana (Berlin, 1852^60) (repr. Berlin, 1931; Hildesheim,
1964); Steinschneider, ’Supplementum Catalogi librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana’, Zentralblatt fu« r Bibliothekswesen, 11 (1894),484^508 (repr. Hildesheim, 1964).
St CB and
Suppl.

1
2
3

Inventory
6
7
15
18
24
28
30
49
59
60
78
79
81
85
5
8
9

St CB and
Suppl.
4
5^6
6
7
8
10
11
12
13
14
15
17
555
1006
1011
1059
1066

Inventory

St CB and
Suppl.

Inventory

St CB and
Suppl.

Inventory

10
13
12
16
17
19
20
21
25
29
26
27
55
23
14
4
11

1433
1567
1586
1801
1982
2384
2576
2920
3589
3953
4221(1)4486
4526(1)4784(1)4821(43)4821(44)4934(1)

64
76
77
80
63
84
82
83
55
62
1
2
3
31
32
33
34

5269(1)5415(2)5500
5500(1)5500(2)5500(21)5500(22)5500(30)5500(36)5564(1)5670(1)5670(2)5724(1)5817(1)5882(1)6033(1)
6068

35
37
44
39
43
42
45
40
41
38
47
48
53
50
51
52
54

St CB and
Suppl.

Inventory

6138(3)6138(15)6453(1)6453(2)6513(1)6513(100)6532
6532(48)6532(50)6532(55)6632(1)6891(24)6916(1)6927(2)[Suppl. p. 487] 241b
[Suppl. p. 501] 1088
[Suppl. p. 505] 6498

56
57
69
70
58
61
66
65
67
68
71
72
74
73
75
36
46

Table 6. ThesaurusTypographiae Hebraicae Saeculi XV, ed. A. Freimann and M. Marx (Berlin, 1924^31).
Thesaurus

A2
A5
A6
A7
A8

Inventory
15
18
22
26
28
30
36
49
60
78
79
81
85
39
40
34
53
52

Thesaurus
A10
A11
A12
A13
A14
A15
A17
A18
A19
A20
A21
A23
A25
A26
A27
A28
A30
A31

Inventory
56
47
57
5
4
8
58
61
69
65
73
71
72
76
74
77
48
9

Thesaurus
A32
A37
A39
A40
A41
A45
A46
A48
A50
A54
A56
A57
A58
A59
A60
A61
A62
A63

Inventory
51
82
10
83
64
16
46
70
75
80
43
12
11
13
1
62
54
3

Thesaurus
A64
A65
A66
A67
A68
A69
A70
A71
A73
A75
A77
A78
A81
A85
A90
A91
A92
A94

Inventory
68
67
32
38
37
33
20
2
63
23
35
21
27
45
84
84
84
55

Thesaurus
A98
B2
B8
B11
B12
B18
B19
B20
B21
B26
B28
B36
B38
B40
C1

Inventory
24
41
42
17
14
66
31
19
25
29
50
59
6
7
44

2740
Table 7.

i n v en tory of h ebr ew i ncu na bula
ISTC

ISTC

ia00009300
ia01417300
ib00296660
ib00525500
ib00525520
ib00525540
ib00525570
ib00525600

Inventory
15
18
22
28
30
49
60
81
85
1
2
3
16
23
27
8
14

ISTC
ib00525620
ib00525640
ib00525650
ib00525660
ib00525670
ib00525690
ib00525700
ib00525720
ib00525760
ib00525780
ib00525820
ib00525850
ib00525860
ib00525870
ib00525940
ib00525960
ib00525970

Inventory
17
19
20
21
24
26
6
7
9
10
25
4
5
12
11
29
13

ISTC
id00101800
id00102730
id00102740
ie00028750
ii00059500
ii00175500
ii00175800
ij00000100
ij00000200
ij00000250
ij00000300
ij00000400
ij00000600
ij00000650
ij00000800
ij00218510
ij00218520

Inventory
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
43
44
42
45
40
41
46
47

ISTC
ij00218530
ij00219500
ij00479800
ij00479900
ij00493500
ik00005500
ik00038300
il00189700
il00189750
im00007850
im00079400
im00079700
im00079800
im00100100
im00624700
im00624800
im00866140

Inventory
48
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
82
58
59
61
62
63
64
65

ISTC
im00866160
im00866180
im00866200
im00866220
im00866240
in00006500
is00625100
is00625170
is00625250
it00005800
it00015040
it00015080
it00015140
it00015320
it00015380
it00015400
it00055770

Inventory
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
83
75
76
77
78
79
80
84

Table 8. EPI and Institute for Hebrew Bibliography (Jerusalem), The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book1473^1960, developed by CDI systems(Jerusalem, 1994, 2002 edition).
BHB

0105180010575001059290106305

Inventory
15
18
22
28
30
36
49
60
75
78
79
80
81
85
31
3
74
2

BHB
0106360
0109905
0135410013607401360750136078013854401387270139373014123301493120149825
014998501500630150430015043101504320150444

Inventory
1
51
52
40
42
45
48
53
50
55
62
70
61
58
65
66
67
68

BHB
015061401511240155985016424701646440164645017233701764800178082017844901844130202621020262202026230202662020266702026710202686

Inventory
63
64
35
54
32
33
82
72
47
38
44
9
24
26
21
25
10
20

BHB
0302217030228603044520306778030801703092590309260030926103092620312542031254303125520312574
0313018
0313108
0313434
0313435
0313436

Inventory
46
41
4
84
5
73
19
13
57
14
7
17
11
23
12
27
16
29

BHB
0313437
0313447
0313451
0313483
03135170313955
03139800314015031464003156410315943031657403165740317611Inventory
59
83
76
43
8
34
37
69
40
56
39
77
6
71

i n v en tory of h e brew i ncu na bula
Table 9. Perets Tishby,‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim: te˘urbibliyogra¢ meforat. shel ha-sefarim ha-¯Ivriyim she-nidpesu ad
shenat 1500, bi-tseruf tsilum simane mayim u-fak.similim shel¯amudim meyuh.adim’

Table 10.

2741

Articles by Jacob L. Teicher.

‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, Bodleian Library Record, 14 (1941),
234^6
Heb 7, 15, 18^20, 24, 30, 36, 43, 59, 60, 81, 84[pt 1] A. Italy, I. Rome
K.iryat sefer, 58 (1983, i.e. 1984), 808^51
Heb 58, 61, 65, 69, 71^3

‘Notes on Hebrew Incunables’, Journal of Jewish Bibliography, 4(1943), 54^62[pt 2] A. Italy, II. Reggio di Calabria, Piove di Sacco, Mantua,
FerraraK.iryat sefer, 60 (1985, i.e. 1986), 865^962
Heb 34, 39^40, 47, 52^3, 56^7

Heb 23, 38, 45, 50, 81, 84‘Fragments of Unknown Hebrew Incunables’, Journal of Jewish
Studies, 1 (1948/9), 105^10
Heb 15, 18, 36, 59^60, 81[pt 3] A. Italy, III. Bologna
Ohev sefer, 1 (1987), Hebrew: 23^51, English: 29^39
Heb 4, 5, 8

Inventory
7
15
18
19
20
23
24
30
36

[pt 5] A. Italy, IV. Soncino
K.iryat sefer, 62 (1989/90), 361^406
Heb 7, 48, 64, 74, 76^7
[pt 6] A. Italy, IV. Soncino (continuation)
K.iryat sefer, 63 (1990/1), 603^36
Heb 9, 10, 51

Teicher
1
1
1
1
1

3
3

2
1
1
1

3

Inventory
38
43
45
50
59
60
81
84

Teicher
2
1
2
2
1
3
1
3
1 2 3
1 2

[pt 7] A. Italy, IV. Soncino (continuation)
K.iryat sefer, 64 (1992/3), 689^726
Heb 82^3

Table 11.

Previous and current shelfmarks with provenances.

Previous shelfmark

Previous shelfmark
KD = K. ohelet David

Current shelfmark
sorted A ^ Z
Auct. M 4.2
Auct. M 4.4
Auct. M 4.6
Auct. M 4.7
Auct. M 4.11
Auct. M 4.8
Auct. M 4.9
Auct. M 4.10
Auct. M 4.12
Auct. M 4.14
Auct. M 4.15
Auct. M 4.16
Auct. M 4.17
Auct. M 4.18
Auct. M 4.19
Auct. M 4.20
Auct. M 4.22

Provenance
Crevenna; Pierson;
MacCarthy-Reagh

Crevenna

Crevenna
Crevenna
Crevenna

Inv.

Copy

8

2

16
52
13

1
3

5
12
9
11
31
14
73
1
56
19
17
66

2
2
3
1
1
1
2
2

2742
Table 11.

i n v en tory of h ebr ew i ncu na bula(cont’d.)Previous shelfmark

MS. Canon. Gr. 103(1)Previous shelfmark
KD = K. ohelet David

Auct. M 4.19

Opp. 4 1347(1) KD
Opp. 4 1347(2) KD
Opp. 4 1347(3) KD
Opp. 4 1379(1) KD
Opp. 4 1379(2) KD
Opp. 4 1394 KD
Opp. 4 1590 KD
Opp. 4 1683 KD
Opp. 4 120 KD
Opp. 4 124(1) KD
Opp. 4 124(2) KD
Opp. 4 165(2) KD
Opp. 4 238 KD
Opp. 4 434 KD
Opp. 4 456 KD
Opp. 4 679 KD
Opp. 4 1116(1) KD
Opp. 4 1116(2) KD
Opp. 4 1116(3) KD
Opp. 4 67 KD
Opp. 4 68 KD
Opp. 4 1151 KD
Opp. 8 392(2) KD
Auct. M inf. 1.7*

Auct. M 4.17 [duplicate]
Auct. M inf. 1.4 [?]Auct. M inf. 1.4
Auct. M inf. 1.19
Auct. M inf. 1.20 [?]Auct. M inf. 1.20
[or Auct. M inf. 1.21?]
Auct. M inf. 1.21 [?]Auct. M inf. 1.21* [?]Auct. M inf. 1.25
Auct. M inf. 1.22
Auct. M inf. 3
Opp. add. 4o IV.443
Auct. M inf. 5
Auct. M inf. 2
Auct. M inf. 2.11

Current shelfmark
sorted A ^ Z
Auct. M 4.23
Auct. M 4.24
Auct. M 4.25
Holk. c.1
Inc. d. P. 2. 1491
N 1.1 Jur.
Kennicott printed 1
Kennicott printed 2(1)Kennicott printed 2(2)Kennicott printed 3
Kennicott printed 4
Mar. 200
Opp. 4o 1074(1)Opp. 4o 1074(2)Opp. 4o 1074(3)Opp. 4o 1095(1)Opp. 4o 1095(2)Opp. 4o 1113
Opp. 4o 1323
Opp. 4o 1400
Opp. 4o 144
Opp. 4o 148(1)Opp. 4o 148(2)Opp. 4o 187(2)Opp. 4o 255
Opp. 4o 459
Opp. 4o 483
Opp. 4o 655
Opp. 4o 879(1)Opp. 4o 879(2)Opp. 4o 879(3)Opp. 4o 89
Opp. 4o 90
Opp. 4o 914
Opp. 8o 447(2)Opp. add. 12o 52*
Opp. add. 12o 81
Opp. add. 4o I.258(1)Opp. add. 4o II.294(1)Opp. add. 4o III.125
Opp. add. 4o IV.222
Opp. add. 4o IV.222*
Opp. add. 4o IV.223
Opp. add. 4o IV.224
Opp. add. 4o IV.225

Provenance

Coke
Canonici
PocockeKennicottKennicottKennicottKennicottKennicottMarshall
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer

Opp. add. 4o IV.226
Opp. add. 4o IV.226*
Opp. add. 4o IV.226**
Opp. add. 4o IV.442

69
25
40
23
19
63
8
12
13
9
10
68
47
53
34
54
3
35
83
52
29
11
13
37
57
38
45
72
74
48
64
9
10
68
46
84
4
19
77
1
22
21
26
27
21
27
27
27
50

72
Opp. add. 4o IV.444
Opp. add. 4o IV.445
Opp. add. 4o V.149

Inv.

1
57
53
14

Copy
1
4
1
1
1
1
2
3
1
1
2
1

2
4
4
2
2

2

4
2
2
1
3
2
2
1
1
2
3
4

1
1
2

i n v en tory of h e brew i ncu na bula
Table 11.

2743

(cont’d.)Previous shelfmark

MS. Huntington 623^5

Opp. fol. 246 KD

Previous shelfmark
KD = K. ohelet David

Auct. M inf. 2.5^7
Auct. M inf. 2.10
Auct. M inf. 2.4
Auct. M inf. II. 2.2^3
T 11.18 Th.

Opp. fol. 242 KD
Opp. fol. 243 KD
Opp. fol. 924 KD
Opp. fol. 929 KD
Opp. fol. 979 KD
Opp. fol. 986 KD
Opp. fol. 989 KD
Opp. fol. 990 KD
Opp. fol. 1133 KD
Auct. M 4.1
Opp. fol. 375 KD
Opp. fol. 521 KD
Opp. fol. 522(2) KD
Opp. fol. 559 KD
Opp. fol. 564 KD

Heb. c.6
Heb. c.7
Heb. c.7
Heb. c.7
Heb. c.7
Heb. c.7
Heb. c.7
Heb. c.7
Heb. c.7
Heb. c.162
Heb. c.162
Heb. c.176
Heb. d.83
Heb. d.83
Heb. d.83
Heb. d.83
Heb. d.83
Heb. d.83
Heb. d.83
Heb. d.83

Current shelfmark
sorted A ^ Z
Opp. add. 4o V.50
Opp. add. fol. II.173
Opp. add. fol. III.294^6
Opp. add. fol. III.415
Opp. add. fol. III.425a-c
Opp. add. fol. III.426
Opp. add. fol. III.428
Opp. add. fol. III.429a-b
Opp. add. fol. III.430
Opp. add. fol. III.448
Opp. add. fol. III.561
MS. Opp. add. fol. 56
Opp. fol. 2^3
Opp. fol. 262
Opp. fol. 263
Opp. fol. 1103
Opp. fol. 1108
Opp. fol. 1160
Opp. fol. 1167
Opp. fol. 1170
Opp. fol. 1171
Opp. fol. 1305
Opp. fol. 266
Opp. fol. 583
Opp. fol. 724
Opp. fol. 725(2)Opp. fol. 804^805
Opp. fol. 810
FF 26 Art. Seld.
GG 2 Art. Seld.(1)GG 2 Art. Seld.(2)O 1.15 Art. Seld.(1)O 1.15 Art. Seld.(2)O 1.15* Art. Seld.
B 21.6 Th.
Vet. Or. c. Heb. 2
Vet. Or. c. Heb. 3
Vet. Or. c. Heb. 3
Vet. Or. c. Heb. 3
Vet. Or. c. Heb. 3
Vet. Or. c. Heb. 3
Vet. Or. c. Heb. 3
Vet. Or. c. Heb. 3
Vet. Or. c. Heb. 3
Vet. Or. c. Heb. 4
Vet. Or. c. Heb. 4
Vet. Or. c. Heb. 5
Vet. Or. d. Heb. 2
Vet. Or. d. Heb. 2
Vet. Or. d. Heb. 2
Vet. Or. d. Heb. 2
Vet. Or. d. Heb. 2
Vet. Or. d. Heb. 2
Vet. Or. d. Heb. 2
Vet. Or. d. Heb. 2

Provenance

Huntington
Steinschneider

Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
SeldenSeldenSeldenSeldenSeldenSelden[Genizah?][Genizah?][Genizah?][Genizah?][Genizah?][Genizah?][Genizah?][Genizah?][Genizah?][Genizah?][Genizah?][Genizah?][Genizah?][Genizah?][Genizah?][Genizah?][Genizah?][Genizah?][Genizah?][Genizah?]

Inv.
82
55
2
70
2
41
43
39
66
80
79
81
63
56
67
61
51
62
71
32
33
2
65
76
44
43
58
55
51
11
13
9
25
25
11
33
6
19
23
24
36
59
76
78
23
42
63
7
15
20
20
23
49
60
75

Copy
2
2
1

1

2
2

2

1
3
1

1
1
2
1
1
2
3
1
2
4
1

2
3
3
2
1
2
2

2744
Table 11.

i n v en tory of h ebr ew i ncu na bula(cont’d.)Previous shelfmark

Previous shelfmark
KD = K. ohelet David

Current shelfmark
sorted A ^ Z

4 Z 39 Th.

Heb. d.123
Heb. d.123
Heb. d.123
MS. Huntington 386
Heb. e.87
Heb. e.87
Heb. e.87
Heb. e.87
Heb. e.116

Table 12.

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39

Provenance

Inv.

Vet. Or. d. Heb. 3
Vet. Or. d. Heb. 3
Vet. Or. d. Heb. 3
Vet. Or. e. Heb. 4(1)Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5
Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5
Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5
Vet. Or. e. Heb. 5
Vet. Or. e. Heb. 6

CowleyCowleyLuzzatto
Huntington
GenizahGenizahGenizahGenizah

28
30
55
37
15
18
21
84
85

Copy

3
1
1
3
2

Inventory list.
Proctor

CowleyGoldsteinO¡enberg

Steinschneider

6729
6736
6732
7436
7330

14
47
55
74
74
197
197
74
74
74
74
74
74
75
197
75
75
197
75/197
197
75/197
75
197
197
75
75
75
197
75
197
145
150
150/197
166
254
197
274
299
288

52
74
55
23
21

4221(1)4486
4526(1)
1059
1

20
29
34
50
49
51
88

56
6
9
36(B)
34
23
25
13
27
29
43
35
46
15

39
89

10
16

7
8

94
46
62
75
48

17
18
19

10
11
12
1006

95
63
64

11
20
32
22
12

13
15
17

98

45

14

92
72
45
14
61

1
105
106
48
58
4
60
82
61

4784(1)4821(43)4821(44)4934(1)5269(1)[Suppl. p. 501] 1088
5414(2)5564(1)5500(1)

6557
7298
7299
6727
6728
6726
9601
7305
9602
9835
7022
6740
9836
7023
7024
9840
9834
6734
6742
6903
7021

6735
7231

68
73
10

2
3
4
1066
6
5^6
1011

i n v en tory of h e brew i ncu na bula
Table 12.

40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
Inventory
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

2745

(cont’d.)Proctor

CowleyGoldsteinO¡enberg

Steinschneider

5746/6902A
9587
9599
7302

289
289

13
81
86
70
104
67
18
27

70
73
65
62
63
69
77
75
76

5500(30)5500(36)5500(21)5500(2)5500
5500(22)[Suppl. p. 505] 6498
5670(1)5670(2)

102
30
16
15
54
76
17
19
9
103

78
3
79
80
102
81
50
51
87
90

5817(1)5882(1)6033(1)5724(1)
6068
555/3589
6138(3)6138(15)6513(1)

8
53
47
35
1
91
57
56
7
58
2
6
3
25
41
24
26
85

6513(100)
3953
1982
1433
6532(48)6532
6532(50)6532(55)6453(1)6453(2)6632(1)6891(24)6927(2)6916(1)[Suppl. p. 487] 241b
1567
1568

43

86
91
92
93
96
97
98
99
94
95
100
55
111
57
117
119
122
132
130
131

7442
6907
7294
9838
7300
6905
6904
6731
7437
6906
5745
7340

7435
6730
6739
7295
7341
9833
6741
6733
7434
7306
7342
7433
7343
7293
7292
7291

7307

288
288
289
312
311
311
197
319
327
331
362
374
197/226392
393
474
197/474
197/474482
396
441/480444
489
487/489
489
490
464
464
504
646
654
650
197
197/676676
197/679
680
680

1801

7297
7303
7025

532
566
197/554
197

33
36
44

83
115
38/109

2576
2920
2384

BHB

ISTC

Teicher*

Tishby**Thesaurus

01063600106305
01057500304452030801703165740312543

ia00009300
ia01417300
ib00296660
ib00525850
ib00525860
ib00525700
ib00525720[pt 3][pt 3]
1[pt 5]

A60
A71
A63
A14
A13
B38
B40

2746
Table 12.

i n v en tory of h ebr ew i ncu na bula(cont’d.)Inventory

BHB

ISTC

8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63

0313517020262102026710312574
0313108
03092610312542ib00525570
ib00525760
ib00525780
ib00525940
ib00525870
ib00525970
ib00525600

03134350312552

ib00525500
ib00525620

030926002026860202662

ib00525640
ib00525650
ib00525660

03130180202622020266702026230313434

ib00525520
ib00525670
ib00525820
ib00525690
ib00525540

0313436

ib00525960

Teicher*

Tishby**Thesaurus[pt 3][pt 6][pt 6]

A15
A31
A39
A58
A57
A59
B12

1, 3
A45
B11
1, 3
1
1

B20
A70
A78

2
1

A75
A98
B21
A81
B26

1
010518001646440164645031395501559850313980017844903159430136074/0314640
03022860136075
031348301844130136078030221701780820138544

id00101800
id00102730
id00102740
ie00028750
ii00059500
ii00175500
ii00175800
ij00000100
ij00000200
ij00000650
ij00000800
ij00000400
ij00000250
ij00000300
ij00000600
ij00218510
ij00218520
ij00218530

01393730109905
01354100138727016424701412330315641030926201500630313437

ij00219500
ij00479800
ij00479900
ij00493500
ik00005500
ik00038300
ik00189700
il00189750
im00079400
im00079700

014998501493120150614im00079800
im00100100
im00624700[pt 2]

B19
A66
A69
A6
A77

1, 3
2
[pt 2][pt 2]

12[pt 2][pt 5]
2[pt 6][pt 2][pt 2][pt 2][pt 2][pt 1]
1, 3
1, 3[pt 1]

A68
A67
A2
A5
B2
B8
A56
C1
A85
A46
A11
A30
B28
A32
A8
A7
A62
A94
A10
A12
A17
B36
A18
A61
A73

i n v en tory of h e brew i ncu na bula
Table 12.

2747

(cont’d.)Inventory

BHB

ISTC

64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85

01511240150430015043101504320150444031401501498250317611017648003092590105929

im00624800
im00866140
im00866160
im00866180
im00866200
im00866220
im00866240
in00006500
is00625100
is00625170
is00625250
it00015040
it00015080
it00015140
it00015320
it00015380
it00015400

03134510316574

Teicher*

Tishby**Thesaurus[pt 5][pt 1]

A41
A20
B18
A65
A64
A19
A48
A23
A25
A21
A27
A50
A26
A28

[pt 1][pt 1][pt 1][pt 1][pt 5][pt 5][pt 5]

A54
1, 2, 31072337
03134470306778

im00007850
it00005800
it00055770[pt 7][pt 7]
1, 2

A37
A40
A90/A92*Teicher:(1) ‘Hebrew Printed Fragments’, Bodleian LibraryRecord, 14 (1941), 234^6.
(2) ‘Notes on Hebrew Incunables’, Journal of Jewish Bibliography, 4 (1943), 54^62.
(3) ‘Fragments of Unknown Hebrew Incunables’, Journal of Jewish Studies, 1 (1948/9), 105^10.
** Tishby:
PeretsTishby,‘Defuse ¯eres (ink.unabulim) ¯Ivriyim: te˘ur bibliyogra¢ meforat. shel ha-sefarim ha-¯Ivriyim she-nidpesu ad shenat1500, bi-tseruf
tsilum simane mayim u-fak.similim shel ¯amudim meyuh.adim’[part 1] K. iryat sefer, 58 (1983, i.e. 1984), 808^51 (A. Italy, I. Rome).
[part 2] K.iryat sefer, 60 (1985, i.e. 1986), 865^962 (A. Italy, II. Reggio di Calabria, Piove di Sacco, Mantua, Ferrara).
[part 3] Ohev sefer, 1 (1987), 23^51 ([A.] Italy, III. Bologna).
[part 5] K. iryat sefer, 62 (1989/90), 361^406 ([A.] Italy, [IV.] Soncino).
[part 6] K. iryat sefer, 63 (1990/1), 603^36 (A. Italy, [IV.] Soncino continued).
[part 7] K. iryat sefer, 64 (1992/3), 689^726 (A. Italy, [IV.] Soncino continued).