Perush ha-Torah
Contributors: Eliezer, Rabbi, active 1488-1516, printer; Domenico, 1552-1622, censor; Carretto, Giovanni Domenico, active 1607-1628, censor
Publisher: Eliezer [Toledano]
Published: 1489
Place of publication: Lisbon
Language: heb
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Commentaries; Bible
Other titles: Hiddushe ha-Torah le-rav rabenu Mosheh bar Naḥman tatsevah; Commentary on the Pentateuch
Work titles: Hidushe ha-Torah
Notes: Title from title page on leaf [1.1] verso.

Imprints from colophon on leaf [31.9] recto.

For an interpretation of the exact date in the colophon, see A. Marx, "Hebrew incunabuls" (Review), Jewish Quarterly Review, n.s., 11 (1920), pp. 98-119 (p. 102), and BM 15 cent., XIII, 95.

Text in two columns, but long lines on leaves [31.8] verso and [31.10] recto.

Printed running titles.

Square types 1:230 H for headings and initial words; semi-cursive types 2:117 H for the text, headlines and signatures.

Metal-cut border on leaf [1.1] verso and initials on leaves [1.1] verso, [1.2] recto, [22.2] verso and [26.5] recto.

Neveu corrects Adler's collation: see ISTC im00866160.

Signatures: [1⁸¹ 2-6⁸ 7¹² 8-13¹⁰ 14¹² 15-28¹⁰ 29-30⁸ 31¹²]. Leaves [16.10] and [31.12] blank.

Progressive signatures "1-151" to bifolia, omitting nos 135 and 144, repeating no. 136.

Rare Book copy: Fragments; signatures 26-30 + 2 leaves only.

BM 15th cent., XIII, 94

BN cat. des incun., Heb-27

Bod-inc, Heb-66

Goff, Heb-87

Goldstein, 91

GW, M25521

Hain, 11670

ISTC, im00866160

Oates, 4222, 4223

Offenberg, 97

I. Adler, "Les incunables hébraïques de la Bibliothèque Nationale". Le livre hébraïque: incunables, publications israéliennes. Exposition, Paris, 1962, pp. 69-106, 32

"Catalogues régionaux des incunables des Bibliothèques publiques de France". Vol. XVII: Valérie Neveu. "Haute-Normandie", Genève, 2005 437

Gift; Gladys Gewirtz in loving memory of her father, Solomon Kerstein, who collected these leaves; 2016.
Table of contents: title: Moses ben Nahman. [Introduction], [1.1]v; Moses ben Nahman. [Commentary on the Pentateuch], [1.2]r-[31.8]v, divided as follows: Genesis, [1.2]r-[9.9]v, Exodus, [9.9]v-[16.9]r, Leviticus, [17.1]r-[22.2]r, Numbers, [22.2]v-[26.5]r, Deuteronomy, [26.5]r-[31.8]v; [Verse], five lines, [31.8]v; [Benediction], [31.9]r; [Verse colophon], [31.9]r; Moses ben Nahman. [Prayer over the fall of Jerusalem], [31.9]v-[31.11]r; Moses ben Nahman. [Letter to his son], [31.11]r.