List number 186
Short Title Sefer ha-mispar
Full Title - Original ספר המספר
Full Title - Transliterated Sefer ha-mispar
Full Title - English [The Book of Arithmetic]
Date - Georgian [March 13th, 1534]
Date - Hebrew כ"ו אדר רצ"ד
Dating According to the frontispiece and the colophon
Place of publiation Constantinople
Format 4°, Hebrew (Sephardi [Merubah] without diacritics, Rashi), decorative border on frontispiece, woodcut decorated headline on title page, textual diagrams (with Arabic and Hebrew letter numerals).
Autopsied Yes
Subject matter Secular Hebrew material (mathematics).
Author - English Mizraḥi, Eliyahu ben Avraham
Author - Hebrew מזרחי, אליהו בן אברהם (רא"ם)
Author - English Bibas, Yosef ben Yo'el
Author - Hebrew ביבאס, יוסף בן יואל
Frontispiece - Original בקונסטנטינא || קרית אדוננו המלך הגדול והאדיר || שולטאן שולימאן || ירום הודו ויתנשא : בשנת שתים עשרה למלכו : || בבית צעיר המחוקקים קטון התלמידים || גרשם בן הח"ר משה בן החכם המופלג הר"ר || ישראל נתן שונצין בן שמואל בן ה"ר משה ז"ל || והוא נלחם בעיר פיר"ט נגד [---] פרא יואן || די קאפיסטראנ"ו וגרש אותו עם כל חילו משם : והוא היה דור חמישי למה"ר משה משפירה הנזכר בתוספות מטוך: שנת כי גר הייתי באר"ץ נכריה

Frontispiece text - English [In Constantinople || the city of our lord the exalted and mighty king || his excellency Sultan Suleyman: || in the twelfth year of his reign : || in the house of the youngest among the incisors the least among the students || Gershom [son of the sage Rabbi] Moshe son of the exalted sage || [Rabbi] Israel Natan son of Shemu‘el son of [Rabbi] Moshe [of blessed memory] || who had fought in the town of Fir”t [i.e., Fürth] against [---] Fr”a Yoan || di Capistran”o [i.e. John of Capistrano] who banished him together with all his host from there : and he was fifth generation to [Rabbi] Moshe of Shpeir”a [i.e., Speyer] who is mentioned in the Tosafot of Touques: in the twelfth year of in the year of I have been a stranger in a strange lan”d [b.‘a.r.ts, i.e. Hebrew year 5293]]

Colophon text - original ותהי השלמת זה הספר ביום ה' כ"ו לחדש אדר שנת הרצ"ד לפ"ק פה קונסטאנטינה רבתי יע"ה || אמן: ומי שחננו ונתן לנו כח להדפיס ספר הזה הוא למען רחמיו יזכנו להשלים המכלול || ולעשות ספרים אחרים עד אין קץ:

Colophon text - English This book was completed on Thursday, the 26th day of the month of Adar of the year r.ts.d [i.e., Hebrew year 5294 according to the minor reckoning] here in the city of Constantinople [may God establish it] || Amen: and may he who gave us the strength to print this book may allow us to complete the book Mikhlol for his great mercy || and to make other books to no end:

Bibliographical reference
Antonucci 118, De Rossi 35, Habermann 7-I: 4, Sacchi 179, Seligsohn 117, Soave 81, Vinograd Constantinople 150. 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. 118

De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo. 1795. Annales hebraeo-typographici sec. XV. Parma: Ex regio typographeo. 35

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. 7-I: 4

Sacchi, Federico. 1877. I tipografi ebrei di Soncino. Cremona: Tipog. Ronzi e Signori. 179

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. 117

Soave, Moisè. 1878. Dei Soncino, celebri tipografi italiani nei secoli XV, XVI con elenco delle opere de essi. Venice: Longo. 81

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 150

Bibliography of the Hebrew Book (BHB): 147458

Catalogo del Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (OPAC SBN): CFIE053651

WorldCat: 800260161, 122799258, 978046473, 872538093, 476813666

Holdings
14 copies: NLI, Paris Mazarine, Berlin Stabi, Florence BNCF, BL, HUC, Yale, Columbia. Click for full list

Asia
Israel Jerusalem National Library of Israel - 2 copies 8= 35 V 4593
8= 35 V 4593
Europe
France Paris Bibliothèque Mazarine 4° A 12594 [Res]
Germany Berlin Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz Ev 5620
Göttingen Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek 8 RABB 562/6 RARA
Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 4 A.hebr. 302
Italy Florence Biblioteca nazionale centrale MAGL. 12.4.334
The Netherlands Amsterdam Bibliotheek Universiteit - Allard Pierson Depot RON A-3403
Hague Koninklijke Bibliotheek KW 230 D 13 [3]
United Kingdom London British Library 1937.e.14
Americas
Canada Toronto University of Toronto friedberg 00077
United States Cincinnati Hebrew Union College B 410
New Haven Yale University - Beinicke Reading Room QA101 M58
New York Columbia University - rare Book and Manuscript Library PLIMPTON 511 1534 M69
Unverified copies
Switzerland Basel Universitätbibliothek - website not working UBH FA V 25
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