Ioannis Reuchlin Phorcensis LL. Doc. ad Dionysium fratrem suum Germanum De rudimentis Hebraicis liber primus
Contributors: Simler, Georg, -1535, author of afterword, colophon, etc; Anshelm, Thomas, printer; Reichsstift Salem (Salem, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Publisher: In aedib. Tho. Anshelmi
Published: 1506
Place of publication: Phorce
Language: lat
Number of pages: 620
Subjects: Dictionaries; Hebrew language; Latin; Grammar; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Ioannis Revchlin Phorcensis LL. Doc. ad Dionysivm fratrem svvm Germanvm De rvdimentis Hebraicis liber primvs; De rudimentis Hebraicis liber primus; De rvdimentis Hebraicis liber primvs
Work titles: De rudimentis Hebraicis
Notes: Paged from right to left.

A leaf numbered 589 on the recto and unnumbered on the verso, and measuring approximately 17 x 17 cm, is bound-in between pages 589-590.

Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Hebrew.

Title from head of page 1.

Imprint taken from colophon on recto of penultimate printed leaf.

Thomas Anshelm's device is present on the colophon leaf; Reuchlin arms printed on the verso.

All leaves unsigned.

Error in pagination: 605-607 labeled 604, 604, 605.

Roman and Hebrew type (Proctor 11754); 36 lines.

"Georgius Symler Thom[a]e Anshelmo bene agere cum literis": recto of penultimate leaf.

Coat of arms of Reuchlin on verso of penultimate leaf.

Initial spaces with guide letters.

Signatures (from Adams): [1]-[2]́œ [3]-[4]́þ [5]-[39]́œ([39]6+chi1) [40]-[50]́œ([50]6+℗øchi1) [51]́œ [52]́þ [53]́œ.

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, entry R383

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e ed.), vol. IV, entry 1253

Panzer, G.W.F. Annales typographici, vol. VIII, page 228, entry 9

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 11754

Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 1670

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early blind tooled pigskin over wooden boards. The spine is labeled in early manuscript. An early inscription has been excised from the head of the first leaf. The embossed stamp of the Library is present on the verso of the same leaf. Early marginalia is present in various portions of the text. The bookplate of the BPL Bigelow Fund, dated March 28, 1865, is present on the rear pastedown. Present on the verso of the final printed leaf is the perforation stamp of the Library and the inscription of the Kloster Salem in Germany ("B. Mariae M Salem").