List number 179
Short Title Kelal ḳatser
Full Title - Original כלל קצר מכל הרשום בכתב מקיף על תשעה סוגי לימודים משוערים
Full Title - Transliterated Kelal ḳatser mi-kol ha-rashum bi-khtav meḳif ‘al thish‘a sugei limudim mesho‘arim
Full Title - English [A Short Rule for Nine Types of Scholarship (An Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Logic)]
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 4°, Hebrew (Sephardi [Merubah] without diacritics), decorative border on frontispiece, woodcut decorated headline on title page, textual diagrams on flyleaf and last page.
Autopsied No
Subject matter Secular Hebrew material (philosophy, science)
Author - English Ibn Bulaṭ, Yehuda ben Yosef
Author - Hebrew אבן בולט, יהודה בן יוסף
Frontispiece - Original בקוסטנדינ״ה רבתי בשנת עשתי עשר לאדוננו || המלך האדיר שולטאן שוליימאן || ירום ויתנשא || מלכותו״ על ידי צעיר [המחוקקים] גרשום || בן הר״ר משה זרע ישראל נתן איש [שונצינו] זצ״ל

Frontispiece text - English [In the great city of [Constantinople] on the eleventh year of [the reign of] our lord || the mighty king Sultan Suleyman || may his reign be || exalted by the youngest [of the incisors] Gershom son [of Rabbi] Moshe of the seed of Israel Natan of [Soncino] [may his memory be a blessing]

Bibliographical reference
Antonucci 115, Habermann 6-X: 86, Sacchi 171, Seligsohn 109, Soave 75, Vinograd Constantinople 142. 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. 115

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: 86

Sacchi, Federico. 1877. I tipografi ebrei di Soncino. Cremona: Tipog. Ronzi e Signori. 171

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. 109

Soave, Moisè. 1878. Dei Soncino, celebri tipografi italiani nei secoli XV, XVI con elenco delle opere de essi. Venice: Longo. 75

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 142

Bibliography of the Hebrew Book (BHB): 105741

WorldCat: 225733963, 233196502, 762347149

Holdings Two copies

Asia
Israel Jerusalem National Library of Israel 75 A 444
Americas
Canada Toronto University of Toronto - Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library friedberg 00152
Online version National Library of Israel, Jerusalem
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