Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Sefer Kol Bo - Rimini, 1520 - Printed by Gershom Soncino
Opening: $5,000
Sold for: $6,250
Including buyer's premium
Sefer Kol Bo, laws and customs. Rimini (Italy): Gershom Soncino, [ca. 1520]. Second edition. [This edition was evidently printed from a manuscript and did not rely on the first edition printed in Italy in ca. 1490].
Censorship erasures and corrections. Signed by censors on the last leaf (signatures from 1591, 1595 and 1629). Several handwritten glosses in ancient Italian Hebrew script.
[164] leaves. 30 cm. Good condition. High-quality paper; stains. Worming on several pages. Repaired tears to several margins, without damage to text. New binding.
Regarding the printing date see: A. M. Haberman, Studies in the History of Hebrew Printers and Books, Jerusalem, 1978, Chapter "The Soncino Sons Printers", p. 69. (In his opinion, this volume was printed in 1525-1526, see ibid. p. 73 no. 79.)
Censorship erasures and corrections. Signed by censors on the last leaf (signatures from 1591, 1595 and 1629). Several handwritten glosses in ancient Italian Hebrew script.
[164] leaves. 30 cm. Good condition. High-quality paper; stains. Worming on several pages. Repaired tears to several margins, without damage to text. New binding.
Regarding the printing date see: A. M. Haberman, Studies in the History of Hebrew Printers and Books, Jerusalem, 1978, Chapter "The Soncino Sons Printers", p. 69. (In his opinion, this volume was printed in 1525-1526, see ibid. p. 73 no. 79.)
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