List number 159
Short Title Rashi Pentateuch
Full Title - Original פירוש רש"י על התורה
Full Title - Transliterated Perush rashi ‘al ha-torah
Full Title - English [The Pentateuch with Commentary by Shlomo Yitshaki (Rashi)]
Date - Georgian [1525]
Date - Hebrew [רפ"ה]
Dating and placement The book does not have a colophon (but does have Gershom's printer mark, "the name of God is a strong tower"). The frontispiece includes a long narration of his road to printing the Rashi pentateuch, but is not dated. I therefore follow de Rossi's dating conjecture.
Place of publiation Rimini
Format 4°, Hebrew (Sephardi [Merubah] without diacritics, Rashi script), decorated borders and printer’s mark (castle) on frontispiece, woodcut decorated headline on title page.
Autopsied Yes
Subject matter Bible exegesis
Author - English Yitsḥaki, Shlomo (a.k.a Rashi)
Author - Hebrew יצחקי, שלמה (רש"י)
Bibliographical reference
De Rossi 49, Haberman 6-VIII: 78, Sacchi 152, Seligsohn 99, Soave 69, Vinograd Rimini 9. Click for full list
De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo. 1795. Annales hebraeo-typographici sec. XV. Parma: Ex regio typographeo. 49

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: 78

Sacchi, Federico. 1877. I tipografi ebrei di Soncino. Cremona: Tipog. Ronzi e Signori. 152

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. 99

Soave, Moisè. 1878. Dei Soncino, celebri tipografi italiani nei secoli XV, XVI con elenco delle opere de essi. Venice: Longo. 69

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 9

Bibliography of the Hebrew Book (BHB) Catalogue at NLI: 316692

Catalogo del Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (OPAC SBN): Catalogo del Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (OPAC SBN)

WorldCat: 1019407527, 233340071
Holdings
Five copies: Parma, Ottawa, HUC, Columbia, JTS. Click for full list
Europe
Italy Parma Biblioteca Palatina 1 ST DER 832
Americas
Canada Ottawa Library and Archives Canada 1 BS1225 S6 1525
United States Cincinnati Hebrew Union College 1 B 505
New York Columbia University 1 B893.1 So41
New York Jewish Theological Seminary 1 RB75:11
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