List number 160
Short Title Baḥya Pentateuch - 4
Full Title - Original ספר רבינו בחיי ביאור על התורה
Full Title - Transliterated Sefer rabenu baḥya bi'ur ‘al ha-torah
Full Title - English [Baḥya’s Commentary on Pentateuch]
Date - Georgian December 17th, 1525 – January 14th, 1526
Date - Hebrew חודש טבת רפ"ו
Dating and placement According to colophon (elaborate poem, an excerpt of which below)
Frontispiece text - original נדפס חמשית [כך] על ידי המחוקק מבני שונצינו || [...] ותהי התחלתו בעיר ארימינו יום שלישי לחדש אלול שנת והיית || כגן רוה :

Frontispiece text - English [Printed for the fifth time by the incisor of the sons of Soncino [...] it was begun in the city of Arimino [i.e., Rimini] on the third day of the month of Elul in the year of “thou shalt be like a watered garden” [that is, k.g.n.r.ṿ.h, signifying Hebrew year 5284] :]

Colophon text - original הוא גר שם משען למשפחתו || שנה וגם שלש בימינו | לחקוק דרש בהיר לאומתו || שם ה-מחבר ב-חיי כנו | פירש לתורת אל באמרתו || הועתק בדיוק רב וסובלתנו | על ידי מביני סוד דרושתו || היום בסוף טבת לחדשנו || פר"ו פרט קטן לעברתו

Colophon text - English [He is Ger shom a support to his family || he doubled and even trebled in our time | to incise clear exegesis to his people || Of the author known as Baḥya | who interpreted God’s Torah easily || Copied with great accuracy and patience | by the intelligent who understand his message || Today at the end of the month of Tevet | [Hebrew year 5286 according to the minor reckoning]]

Place of publication Rimini
Format 2°, Hebrew (Sephardi [Merubah] without diacritics), printer’s mark (castle) and decorative borders on frontispiece, woodcut decorated headlines.
Autopsied Yes
Subject matter Rabbinic and Halakha
Author - English Ibn Ḥalawa, Baḥya ben Asher
Author - Hebrew אבן חלאוה, בחיי בן אשר
Bibliographical reference
Antonucci 102, Haberman 6-VIII: 76, Sacchi 156, Seligsohn 102, Soave 66, Vinograd Rimini 5. 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. 102

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: 76

Sacchi, Federico. 1877. I tipografi ebrei di Soncino. Cremona: Tipog. Ronzi e Signori. 156

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. 102

Soave, Moisè. 1878. Dei Soncino, celebri tipografi italiani nei secoli XV, XVI con elenco delle opere de essi. Venice: Longo. 66

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 5

Bibliography of the Hebrew Book (BHB) Catalogue at NLI: 122008

Catalogo del Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (OPAC SBN): RAVE012203, CFIE051700

WorldCat: 122774259, 1019341730, 122774259 (Duplicate Entry), 122983234, 233176396, 700409475, 1007738875
Holdings
18 copies: NLI, Florence, Munich Bayerische, BL, Ottawa, yale, HUC, NYPL, LOC. Click for full list
Asia
Israel Be'er Sheva Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 1 BS 1225.B28 1524
Jerusalem National Library of Israel - 4 copies 4 69 A 2676 - Scholem Collection
4 69 A 2676
4 69 A 2676
4 69 A 2676
Europe
Italy Florence Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale 1 RARI 22.B.
Forlì Biblioteca comunale Aurelio Saffi 1 PIANC SALA O STAMPATORI 410
Germany Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 1 2 A.hebr. 31
Spain Madrid Consejo Superior Investigaciones Científicas 1 RES/5297
United Kingdom London British Library 1 1907.c.16
Americas
Canada Ottawa Library and Archives Canada 1 BS1225 B24 1526
United States Cambridge Harvard University - Houghton Library 1 Hebrew 2101.945.5 *
Cincinnati Hebrew Union College 1 B 2085
New Haven Yale University - Beinecke Reading Room - 2 copies 2 MLx305 +507be
MLx305 +507be
New York New York Public Library 1 **P
New York Yeshiva University 1 BS1225 .B233 1524
Washington, DC Library of Congress - African & Middle Eastern Reading Room 1 BS1225 .B23 1524
Online versions Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
National Library of Israel, Jerusalem