Rare Books and Manuscripts Leaf Collection no. 0553Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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BEIN Zi +9833 Copy 1: For fuller description see collation-slip in volume. Imperfect copy.BEIN Zi +9833 Copy 2: 26 cm. A fragment only, consisting of fol. 4-8, 11-16, 19-24, 26-32, 34-60, 62-82; 72 ff. in all.Title from leaf 1/2b based on a digital copy found in Goethe University; imprint information for this copy from colophon on leaf [31/10a] from same source and from Ḳaṭalog ha-inḳunabulim ha-ʻIvriyim me-osef sifriyat Bet ha-midrash le-Rabanim ba-Ameriḳah on page 387 (item no. 100).The signatures follow a double leaf signature system, where the sheet numbers are counted in consecutive order, and by doubling the last number will give the total number of leaves.Signatures: [1]⁸([1]8+chi1) [2-6]⁸ [7]¹² [8-13]¹⁰ [14]¹² [15-28]¹⁰ [29-30]⁸ [31]¹² ([16]10 and [31]12 blank.).This printing of Nachmanides' commentary to the Five Books of Moses is the second edition of this work (the first being printed in Rome, approximately 1470). It is arguably the first book printed in any language in Lisbon, Portugal.Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, Heb-87Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 11670Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M25521Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, volume 13, page 94-96 (C. 50.d.3)Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, im00866160Ḳaṭalog ha-inḳunabulim ha-ʻIvriyim me-osef sifriyat Bet ha-midrash le-Rabanim ba-Ameriḳah, 100Offenberg, A.K. Hebrew incunabula in public collections, 97BAC Leaf Collection no. 0553: Imperfect: one leaf only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.