List number 178
Short Title Adderet Eliyahu
Full Title - Original ספר המצוות הנקרא אדרת אליהו
Full Title - Transliterated Sefer ha-mitsṿot ha-niḳra aderet eliyahu
Full Title - English [A Book of Commandments Entitled The Mantle of Elijah (Karaite Religious Code)]
Date - Georgian [After September 30th, 1531]
Date - Hebrew [אחרי י״ט בתשרי רצ"ב]
Dating According to the text of the frontispiece. The book was published "on the eleventh year of our Lord the mighty king Suleyman," whose reign began September 30th, 1520.
Place of publiation Constantinople
Format f°, Hebrew (Sephardi [Merubah] without diacritics), printer’s mark (castle) on frontispiece, decorative borders on frontispiece and title page, woodcut decorated headline on title page, several textual diagrams.
Autopsied Yes
Subject matter Halakha (Karaite code)
Author - English Bashyazi, Elijah
Author - Hebrew בשיצי, אליהו בן משה
Contributor - English Afendopolo, Caleb ben Elijah
Contributor - Hebrew אפנדופולו, כלב בן אליהו
Frontispiece - Original [בקונשטנ]דינא בעשתי עשר שנה לאדוננו המלך האדיר || שוליימאן ירום הודו ותפארתו || [על-ידי צ]עיר המחוקקים קטון התלמידים גרשום בן הח״ר משה זרע ישראל נתן איש שונצי״ן ז״ל || [...] הבחור הנחמד אשר נדבה רוחו אותו לחזק ידי עושי המלאכה ברכושו ובמאודו להעמיד ספר הישר הזה על מכונו הוא אליהו בן משה בן החכם אליהו אשר חבר אדרת || לא ישוע״ר תועלתו בו ידרך [ידריך?] ענוים במשפט וילמד דרכי וארחות יי חסד ואמת לנוצרי בריתו: || מגדל || עוז || שם || יי || בו || ירוץ || צדיק || ונשגב

Frontispiece text - English [[In Constantino]ple on the eleventh year of [the reign of] our Lord the mighty king || Suleyman of exalted glory || [by the young]est of the incisors the least among the students Gershom son of Rabbi Moshe of the seed of Israel Natan of Soncino [of blessed memory] || [...] the fine young man whose spirit moved him to strengthen the hands of the workers with his wealth to establish this righteous book who is Eliyahu ben Moshe son of the sage Eliyahu who wrote the Aderet || its benefit cannot be [reckoned] and will [guide?] the humble in judgment and teach the ways and paths of God to those who keep his covenant: || the name || of God || is a strong tower || the righteous || runneth into it || and is safe]

Bibliographical reference
Antonucci 114, Habermann 6-X: 84, Sacchi 172, Seligsohn 110, Soave 74, Vinograd Constantinople 141. 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. 114

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-X: 84

Sacchi, Federico. 1877. I tipografi ebrei di Soncino. Cremona: Tipog. Ronzi e Signori. 172

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. 110

Soave, Moisè. 1878. Dei Soncino, celebri tipografi italiani nei secoli XV, XVI con elenco delle opere de essi. Venice: Longo. 74

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. Constantinople 141

Bibliography of the Hebrew Book (BHB): 115538

WorldCat: 1081306960, 224133106

Holdings Four copies: NLI, BL, JTS

Asia
Israel Jerusalem National Library of Israel 35 V 3852
Europe
United Kingdom London British Library C.50.c.11
Americas
United States New York Jewish Theological Seminary - 2 copies SHF 1766:1
shf 1766:2 c.2
Online version National Library of Israel, Jerusalem