List number 159
Short Title Avḳat rokhel
Full Title - Hebrew ספר אבקת רוכל
Full Title - Transliterated Sefer avḳat rokhel
Full Title - English ["The Book of the Merchant’s Powder"]
Date - Georgian 1526
Date - Hebrew [אחרי ט"ז בטבת, רפ"ו]
Dating According to colophon
Place of publiation Rimini
Format 4°, Hebrew (Sephardi [Merubah] without diacritics and Rashi), woodcut illusrrated frontispiece (triumphal arch) and printer’s mark (castle) with decorative borders on last page.

Colophon text נדפס שנית על ידי המח[ו]קק מבני שונצי"ן || וראינו בהגהתו מה שלא ראו הקודמים || אותנו בדפיסתו " ביד יי' הטובה || עלינו ברוך שמו || לעד " || ותהי השלמתו בעיר ארימינ"ו שנת עור"י || עורי לבשי עוזך בשנה השלישית || לקלימינט"ו פיפיור || יר"ה

Colophon text - English Printed [could mean either “reprinted” or “printed with corrections”] by the incisor of the sons of Soncino || we took special care in its corrections with those which escaped those || who came before us in printing it, with God’s mighty hand || upon us blessed be his name || forever || it was completed in the city of [Arimino] in the year a.u.r.i [“Awake,” numerically equivalent to r.p.v, i.e. 5286] || Awake put on thy strength in the third year of || His Excellency || Pope Clement [VII]

Subject matter Rabbinic and Halakha.
Author - Hebrew בן יצחק, מכיר (ידוע גם כשר חסד)
Author - English Ben Yitsḥak, Makhir (a.k.a Sar ḥesed)
Bibliographical reference
Antonucci 104, Busi 36, Haberman 6-VIII: 81, Manzoni 127, Sacchi 1158, Seligsohn 104, Soave 68, Vinograd Rimini 10. Click for full list
Antonucci, Gaetano Zaccaria. 1868. Catalogo di opere ebraiche greche latine ed italiane stampate dai celebri tipografi soncini ne' secoli xv e xvi, compilato da gaetano zaccaria antonucci prete ravignano ed accresciuto dal medesimo: ora per cura di crescentino giannini corretto e migliorato. Edited by Crescentino Giannini. Fermo: Stampa dei fratelli G. e C. Ciferri. 104

Busi, Giulio. 1987. Edizioni ebraiche del XVI secolo nelle biblioteche dell’Emilia Romagna, Emilia Romagna, biblioteche archive. Bologna: Analisi. 36

Habermann, Avraham Me‘ir. 1933. Ha-Madpisim bene Sontsino: toldotehem u-reshimat ha-sefarim ha-ʻivrim she-nidpesu ʻal yedehem [The Soncino Family of Printers: Their History and A Bibliography of the Books They Printed, Hebrew]. Vienna: David Frenḳil. 6-VIII

Manzoni, Giacomo. 1883. Annali Tipografici dei Soncino: contenenti la descrizione e illustracione delle stampe ebraiche, talmudiche, rabbiniche, greche, latine ed italiane eseguite dai medesimi nel secolo XV a Soncino, a Casalmaggiore, a Napoli, a Brescia, e a Barco e nel secolo XVI a Fano, a Pesaro, a Ortona, a Mare, a Rimini, a Tessalonica e a Costantinopoli, e fatte eseguire a Pesaro ad Ancona e a Cesena. Bologna: Presso Gaetano Romagnoli. 127

Sacchi, Federico. 1877. I tipografi ebrei di Soncino. Cremona: Tipog. Ronzi e Signori. 1158

Seligsohn, M., and Joseph Jacobs. 1906. “Soncino.” In The Jewish Encyclopedia; a Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, edited by Cyrus Adler and Isidore Singer. 11:463–64. New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls company. 104

Soave, Moisè. 1878. Dei Soncino, celebri tipografi italiani nei secoli XV, XVI con elenco delle opere de essi. Venice: Longo. 68

Vinograd, Yeshayahu. 1993. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻivri: reshimat ha-sefarim she-nidpesu be-ot ʻivrit me-reshit ha-defus ha-ʻivri bi-shenat 229 (1469) ʻad shenat 623 (1863) [The Hebrew Book: A Bibliographical List of Titles Printed in Hebrew Letters from the Year 1469 to the Year 1863, Hebrew]. Jerusalem: The Institute for Computerized Bibliography. Rimini 10

Bibliography of the Hebrew Book (BHB) Catalogue at NLI: 148346

Catalogo del Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (OPAC SBN): UBOE037139

WorldCat: 800548559, 1030795506, 476812678, 221467728

Holdings
Six copies: NLI, Paris Mazarine, Munich, Bologna Archigennasio, Uppsala University, BL, Columbia. Click for full list
Asia
Israel Jerusalem National Library of Israel 69 A 3994
Europe
France Paris Bibliothèque Mazarine 4° A 11147-3
Italy Bologna Biblioteca comunale dell'Archiginnasio 4. MM. II. 48
Sweden Uppsala Uppsala University - Carolina Library Obr. 54: 118
Americas
United States New York Columbia University B893.15 M18
Online versions
^ Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich (through Google Books)
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
National Library of Israel, Jerusalem