Arbaʻah ṭurim / meḥaberet he-ḥakham ha-R.R. Yaʻakov ben ha-R.R. Asher.

Accession number: 
PML 77122
Author: 
Jacob ben Asher, approximately 1269-approximately 1340.
Published: 
Kosṭananṭina : R. Daṿid [ibn] Naḥmiaś ṿe-R. Shmuel, 4 Ṭevet 5254 [13 December 1493]
Description: 
[109, 90, 60, 150] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased as the gift of Edwin H. Herzog, 1981.
Notes: 

Title and imprint from colophon.
Colophon (leaf ⁴[19]/6r): ... le-khakh hishtadalnu le-harbits Torah be-Yisrael ʻal yad ha-umanim R. Daṿid [ibn] Naḥmiaś ṿe-R. Shmuel aḥiṿ ... ṿeha-siman she-hayitah hashlamtah elu ha-ṭurim ... yom 6, 4 le-Ṭevet, shenat ḥamishat alefim ṿe-meʾatayim ṿe-ḥamishim ṿe-arbaʻah. Po ba-ʻir Kosṭananṭina rabah ...
Printed in Ib Nahmia's types 1:230H and 2:91H.
Signatures: part I: [1-2⁸ 3⁸ (3+1) 4-12⁸ 13-14⁶]: 109 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [14]/6 blank; part II: ²[1-10⁸ 11¹⁰]: 90 leaves; part III: ³[1-5⁸ 6-7¹⁰]: 60 leaves; part IV: ⁴[1-18⁸ 19⁶]: 150 leaves (409 leaves total).
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Edited by Elia ben Benjamin ha-Levi.
The first book printed in Constantinople.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.8 x 19.4 cm.
PML copy is part III only (quires ³[1-5⁸ 6-7¹⁰]), Even ha-ezer.

Binding: 
20th-century English orange morocco over paper boards (30.5 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: 1 marginal notation in text (leaf ³[1]/3v).

Provenance: 
Boies Penrose II (1902-1976), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown); Eric Hyde Lord Sexton (1902-1980), booklabels (rear pastedown), his sale, Christie's NY, 8 April 1981, lot 49 to J.F. Fleming for Morgan; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Edwin H. Herzog, April 1981.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Bookbinding (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books