Research Catalog

Title

The first book printed in Constantinople : an original leaf of Jacob ben Asher's ʻArbāʻāh Ṭūrīmʼ, Constantinople 1493 with an introduction / by Alexander Marx.

Author

Jacob ben Asher, approximately 1269-approximately 1340.

Publication

Oxford : Privately printed by John Johnson at the University Press, Oxford, for E.H.L. Sexton, 1946.

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Details

Additional Authors

Marx, Alexander, 1878-1953.

Description

10, 7 pages, [1] leaf of facsimile; 34 cm

Alternative Title

• ספר הראשון שנדפס בקונשטנדינא
• Sefer ha-rʼishon shenidpas be-Ḳonśṭandinaʼ
• Arbaʻah ṭurim

Subjects

• Printing, Hebrew
• Arbaʻah ṭurim (Jacob ben Asher)
• Jacob ben Asher, approximately 1269-approximately 1340 > Arbaʻah ṭurim

Note

• Title on added t.p.: ha-Sefer ha-rʼishon shenidpas be-Ḳonśṭandinaʼ (romanized).
• Includes a facsimile of a leaf of the 1493 Constantinople ed.
• "It had been the intention of the late Mr. E.H.L. Sexton to include one original leaf from Jacob Ben Asher's book in each copy of this booklet. However, expert opinion has advised that all extant leaves in the possession of Mrs. B. Sexton should be bound together. The leaf now reproduced here is a representative one from the set"--P. [11].

Language (note)

• Text in Hebrew; editorial and introductory matter in English.

Call Number

*PAE+ 88-3080

OCLC

17882836

Author

Jacob ben Asher, approximately 1269-approximately 1340.

Title

The first book printed in Constantinople : an original leaf of Jacob ben Asher's ʻArbāʻāh Ṭūrīmʼ, Constantinople 1493 with an introduction / by Alexander Marx.

Imprint

Oxford : Privately printed by John Johnson at the University Press, Oxford, for E.H.L. Sexton, 1946.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

Text in Hebrew; editorial and introductory matter in English.

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Added Author

Marx, Alexander, 1878-1953.

Research Call Number

*PAE+ 88-3080