Binding: 17th century English sprinkled calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooling; double panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; marbled text block edges; rebacked; blind-tooling on spine; spine title in gilt.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Includes masekhet (tractate) Berakhot and mishnah from seder Zeraʿim. With occasional manuscript additions: some notes in Hebrew, including Hebrew alphabet practice exercises. Annotations in pencil were perhaps written by Edward Pococke.Decoration: Simple floral designs.Dimensions: 336mm (height) x 252mm (width) x 46mm (depth).Layout: The layout of this edition mirrors that of the first edition of the Talmud printed by Daniel Bomberg between 1519/1520-1523 in Venice. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Babylonian Talmud, printed in Constantinople between 1583-1593 by brothers Solomon and Isaac Jabez. Descendants of Spanish origin scholars, the 16th century family of printers first established a Hebrew press in Salonika in 1546 and from 1559 onwards they were also active in Constantinople. Since the burning and banning of the Talmud in Italy, starting in 1553, there was a high demand for a new printed edition of the Talmud. The Jabez brothers realised how important it was to embark on such a project and started to print the Talmud, tractate by tractate, following the layout of the first edition by Bomberg.
Binding: 17th century English sprinkled calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooling; double panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; marbled text block edges; blind-tooling on spine; spine title in gilt.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Includes tractates Sanhedrin and Megillah. Some marginal notes in Hebrew.Decoration: Simple floral designs.Dimensions: 336mm (height) x 252mm (width) x 44mm (depth).Layout: The layout of this edition mirrors that of the first edition of the Talmud printed by Daniel Bomberg between 1519/1520-1523 in Venice. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Babylonian Talmud, printed in Constantinople between 1583-1593 by brothers Solomon and Isaac Jabez. Descendants of Spanish origin scholars, the 16th century family of printers first established a Hebrew press in Salonika in 1546 and from 1559 onwards they were also active in Constantinople. Since the burning and banning of the Talmud in Italy, starting in 1553, there was a high demand for a new printed edition of the Talmud. The Jabez brothers realised how important it was to embark on such a project and started to print the Talmud, tractate by tractate, following the layout of the first edition by Bomberg.
Binding: 17th century English sprinkled calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooling; double panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; marbled text block edges; blind-tooling on spine; spine title in gilt.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Includes tractates Yoma and Taʿanit. Some marginal notes in Hebrew.Decoration: Simple floral designs.Dimensions: 336mm (height) x 252mm (width) x 38mm (depth).Layout: The layout of this edition mirrors that of the first edition of the Talmud printed by Daniel Bomberg between 1519/1520-1523 in Venice. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Babylonian Talmud, printed in Constantinople between 1583-1593 by brothers Solomon and Isaac Jabez. Descendants of Spanish origin scholars, the 16th century family of printers first established a Hebrew press in Salonika in 1546 and from 1559 onwards they were also active in Constantinople. Since the burning and banning of the Talmud in Italy, starting in 1553, there was a high demand for a new printed edition of the Talmud. The Jabez brothers realised how important it was to embark on such a project and started to print the Talmud, tractate by tractate, following the layout of the first edition by Bomberg.
Binding: 17th century English sprinkled calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooling; double panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; marbled text block edges; blind-tooling on spine; spine title in gilt.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Includes tractates ʿEruvin and Megillah. Some marginal notes in Hebrew.Decoration: Simple floral designs.Dimensions: 336mm (height) x 252mm (width) x 42mm (depth).Layout: The layout of this edition mirrors that of the first edition of the Talmud printed by Daniel Bomberg between 1519/1520-1523 in Venice. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Babylonian Talmud, printed in Constantinople between 1583-1593 by brothers Solomon and Isaac Jabez. Descendants of Spanish origin scholars, the 16th century family of printers first established a Hebrew press in Salonika in 1546 and from 1559 onwards they were also active in Constantinople. Since the burning and banning of the Talmud in Italy, starting in 1553, there was a high demand for a new printed edition of the Talmud. The Jabez brothers realised how important it was to embark on such a project and started to print the Talmud, tractate by tractate, following the layout of the first edition by Bomberg.
Binding: 17th century English sprinkled calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooling; double panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; blind-tooling on spine; spine title in gilt.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Some annotations in pencil, perhaps written by Edward Pococke.Decoration: Title page printed within a decorated border.Dimensions: 336mm (height) × 252mm (width) × 39mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in double columns. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Encyclopedia of the Aggada in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. First edition of Moses Pigo’s (d. in Adrianople 1576) scholarly compendium that deals with non-legalistic exegetical texts in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash. These rabbinic texts, known as Aggadah, include folklore, historical anecdotes, moral exhortations, and practical advice that extends from business to medicine.
Binding: 17th century English sprinkled calf over paper boards; with blind-tooling; sewn onto five supports; marbled text block edges; blind tooling on spine; spine title in gilt.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents: Responsa.Contents note: Printer has not been identified.Decoration: Title page printed within an architectural border.Dimensions: 292mm (height) × 205mm (width) × 73mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in double columns. Hebrew types resembling square script.The first part of this collection of rabbinic responsa was compiled by rabbi and halakhist Elijah ben Ḥayyim (ca. 1530-1610), known as Ra’anaḥ or Morenu ha-Rav ibn Ḥayyim. Born in Adrianople and in about 1575 appointed chief rabbi in Constantinople, he was a prolific author of novellae that dealt with most tractates of the Talmud, and responsa. However, sadly just a few of his writings survived and were later published, many after his death. His responsa were highly regarded by later rabbis, as an example, by Akiva Eger (1761–1837).
Binding: 17th century blind-tooled calf over paper boards; with imprint details in gilt and shelfmark on the spine.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Bible: Pentateuch. Sermons.Decoration: Title page printed within an architectural border. Head- and tailpieces.Dimensions: 293mm (height) x 207mm (width) x 80mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in double columns. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Bet Aharon (House of Aaron) was written by Aaron Sorogon, a Jewish scholar who was active in the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century. His son Elihu published its editio princeps in Constantinople in 1678, after his father’s death. The book includes sixty homilies that follow the order of the sections of the Pentateuch, but there are also Sorogon’s comments on the ‘En Ya’aḳov’ (i.e., Jacob Habib’s aggadic collection).
Binding: Early 18th century Oxford calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooled panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; gilded imprint details and shelfmark on the spine; text block edges sprinkled red.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents: Saʿadia’s Book of Beliefs and Opinions is prefaced by an introduction and has ten chapters. 1. The creation of the world; 2. The unity of the Creator; 3. Revelation and the Commandments; 4. Free will: obedience and disobedience; 5. Merit and demerit; 6. The soul and death; 7. The resurrection of the dead; 8. Messianic redemption; 9. The world to come; 10. Moral conduct, thought and belief.Contents note: Some text has been underlined and there are several marginal annotations in Hebrew, Latin and Arabic, perhaps written by Edward Pococke, in pencil.Decoration: Title printed within an ornamental border.Dimensions: 208mm (height) x 159mm (width) x 42mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in a single column. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.First printed edition of Saʿadia Gaon’s Emunot ṿeha-de‘ot (Kitāb al-amānāt wa-al-iʿatiqādāt), i.e. the Book of Beliefs and Opinions. This seminal work that was compiled in 933 is probably the first systematic attempt to synthesize the Jewish tradition with philosophical teachings. The original version was written in Judeo-Arabic in Hebrew letters, while the first Hebrew translation was done in 1186 by Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon. In the book, the views of rabbinic Judaism are defended against those of karaite Judaism.
Binding: 18th century calf over pasteboards, with blind-tooled panels; sewn onto five supports; blind-tooling, title and shelfmark on the spine.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Some marginal reading marks in pencil.Decoration: Simple ornamental motifs on title page and throughout the volume.Dimensions: 236mm (height) × 177mm (width) × 21mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in a single column. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts. Several illustrative genealogical diagrams.Forbidden marriages according to the Karaite law. The author of the book, Judah Poki was a Karaite scholar who was based in Constantinople but travelled widely to study Karaite writings. His work Sha‘ar Yehudah that deals with forbidden marriages was published by his son Isaac in Constantinople in 1581.
Binding: Early 18th century Oxford calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooled panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; gilded imprint details and shelfmark on the spine; text block edges sprinkled red.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Kabbalistic commentary on Jewish liturgy. Some text has been underlined and there are several marginal annotations in Hebrew, perhaps written by Edward Pococke, in pencil.Decoration: Title page printed in an hourglass shape.Dimensions: 208mm (height) x 159mm (width) x 42mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in a single column. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Meir ben Ezekiel ibn Gabbai was a kabbalist who was born in Spain in 1480 and later probably lived in the East. Tola‘at Ya‘aḳov is his first major work, completed in 1507. It comprises a kabbalistic commentary on the liturgy. Ibn Gabbai was well versed in the kabbalistic lore and his importance lies in his systematic approach to the sources (e.g. the Zohar as the canonical book of the kabbalah).
Binding: 17th century reversed calf over pasteboards; sewn onto three supports; with imprint details and shelfmark on the spine; text block edges stained red.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents: Commentary on the book of Ruth, with the biblical text.Contents note: Includes an introduction by the author and an index by his son Moses. With eulogies in prose and in poetry by Abraham ben Ephraim Sancho and by Samuel Shullam. Some marginal manuscript annotations in Hebrew in a 17th century hand.Decoration: Title page printed within an architectural border.Dimensions: 209mm (height) x 152mm (width) x 23mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in one column (predominantly). Headpieces. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Solomon ben Moses ha-Levi Alkabeẓ was a rabbi, kabbalist and a poet who was active in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century. He was surrounded by a number of eminent scholars and kabbalists, such as Moses Alsekh, Joseph Karo, Moses Cordovero and his students included Samuel Uceda and Abraham Galante. Alkabeẓ’s ‘Shoresh Yishai’ that was printed in 1560/1561 in Constantinople is the first edition of his commentary on the biblical book of Ruth. The book of Ruth is read during the holiday of Shavuot (Feast of Weeks or Pentecost) and Alkabeẓ along his circle of kabbalists were keen on this custom.
Binding: 17th century English sprinkled calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooling; double panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; marbled text block edges; blind-tooling on spine; spine title in gilt.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Includes tractate Shabbat. With copious notes in Hebrew, some of them Hebrew alphabet practice exercises.Decoration: Simple floral designs.Dimensions: 336mm (height) × 252mm (width) × 45mm (depth).Layout: The layout of this edition mirrors that of the first edition of the Talmud printed by Daniel Bomberg between 1519/1520-1523 in Venice. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Babylonian Talmud, printed in Constantinople between 1583-1593 by brothers Solomon and Isaac Jabez. Descendants of Spanish origin scholars, the 16th century family of printers first established a Hebrew press in Salonika in 1546 and from 1559 onwards they were also active in Constantinople. Since the burning and banning of the Talmud in Italy, starting in 1553, there was a high demand for a new printed edition of the Talmud. The Jabez brothers realised how important it was to embark on such a project and started to print the Talmud, tractate by tractate, following the layout of the first edition by Bomberg.