Auction 40 Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
By Kedem
Sep 3, 2014
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem., Israel
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LOT 304:

Sefer Kol Bo, Rimini, 1520 – Glosses

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Sefer Kol Bo, Rimini, 1520 – Glosses
Sefer Kol Bo, laws and customs. Rimini (Italy), 1520, printed by Gershon Soncino, second edition. [Apparently, this edition was printed from a manuscript and did not rely on the first edition printed in Italy in c. 1490].
Hundreds of glosses: short comments, corrections of versions and sources, in early Italian handwriting. Illustrations of hands and various marks for the printer [which look like preparation and marks for reprinting]. Censor erasures. Owner's signature on the edge of the inside of the title page: "Moshe ben Rabbi Yisrael". On the margins of the laws of Purim (Signature 9 Leaf 5) is an inscription signed by the owner "Menachem".
Sefer Kol Bo is a compilation of halachot from the time of the Rishonim written anonymously quite similar to the Orchat Chaim by Rabbeinu Aharon of Lunel. It is not known which book was written first.
[164] leaves. 29 cm. (Restored title page. The first 4 leaves and Leaf 160 are apparently from a different copy). High-quality paper, good-fair condition, spotting and wear. Ancient leather binding, tear in the middle of the spine.
See Bibliography Institute Listing 0141235, which determine the year of printing according to a handwritten inscription of a birth on the 22nd of Sivan 1520 on the copy of the NLI and assuming that before 1520 the Soncino printing press did not yet print in Rimini. See article by A.M. Haberman, The Printers, The Soncino Sons, in his book Chapters in the History of Hebrew Printers, Jerusalem, 1978, Page 69 (in his opinion, the book was printed in 1525-1526, ibid, p. 73 no. 79).

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