List number 2
Short Title Mishneh torah
Full Title - Hebrew משנה תורה / יד חזקה
Full Title - Transliterated Mishneh torah / Yad ḥazaḳah
Full Title - English ["Repetition of the Torah"]
Date - Georgian [March 23rd, 1490]
Date - Hebrew א' בניסן, ר"ן
Dating By frontispiece and colophon texts
Place of publiation Soncino
Format f°, Hebrew (Sephardi [Merubah]), woodcut decorated headlines
Subject matter Rabbinic and Halakha
Author - English Maimonides
Author - Hebrew בן מימון, משה (רמב"ם)
Editor - Hebrew אליעזר ברבי שמואל זצ"ל
Editor - English Eli‘ezer be-rabi Shemu‘el
Colophon text ותשלם כל המלאכה מלאכת ה' היא הי"ד החזקה אשר עשה משה || לעיני ישראל ותהיא השלמתה ביור"ח ניסן שנת נ"ר מצוה ותורה || פה שונצינו אשר במדינת לומברדיא"ה תחת ממשלת האדון דוכוס || מילאנ"ו ירה: שבח והודיה לאל נאם הצעיר המגיה אליעזר ברבי שמואל זצ"ל

Colophon text - translated [Work on the book, the work of God which is the [Strong] hand that Moses || showed all of Israel, completed on the first of the month of Nisan in the year “a candle [n.r., i.e. 5250] of mitzvah and Torah” || here in Soncino in the state of [Lombardy] under the rule of His Excellence the Count of Milan: praise and thanks to God says the youngest corrector, Eli‘ezer be-rabi Shemu‘el may his righteous memory be a blessing]

Frontispiece text אמר צעיר המחוקקים בכתב אמת משפטים צדיקים גרשם בן הח"ר משה זלה"ה איש || שונצינ"ו [...] עת לעשות לה' הפרו תורתיך ואתה תאזור מתניך וקמת || וחקקת בעט מהיר ספר הרב הגדול מרנא ורבנא הגאון האלקי רב"י משה ב"ר מיימון משנה תורה || עטרת צבי וצפירת תפארה לבוש מכלול נימוסי משנה וגמרא תלמוד בבלי וירושלמי ספרי || וספרא לכל היד החזקה ולכל המורא הגדול אשר עשה מש"ה משמרת למשמרת [...] על כן אמרתי אקומה נא ואסובבה בבתי נכאת הספרים המדוייקים ואקח לי משם העתק ספר הרב הגדול ז"ל ובעט מחוקק מהיר || חנני ה' אחקקנו ועל ראשי עטרות אענדנו וביד המשכילים ומבינים מדע אגיהנו וקורא לו ספר || מדוייק אשר פי ה' יקבנו

Frontipsiece text - translated [Said the youngest of the incisors, Gershom son of the sage Rabbi Moshe, may his righteous memory be a blessing, man of || Soncino, now is the time to work for God, for they have made void thy law, and thou therefore gird up thy loins and arise || engrave with a swift pen the book of our great Rabbi, the godly genius maran [Rabbi] Moses son of Rabbi Maimon, the Mishneh Torah, || with the highest exactitude and best beauty, that summary of all the finer points in Mishnah, Gemmarah, the Babylonian and the Jerusalem Talmud, the book || of memory to God’s strong hand and great deeds […] therefore, said I, I shall arise and visit the different libraries and repositories of corrected books to borrow copies of the book of that great sage of blessed memory, and with a swift incising pen || God allowed me to incise and beautify it, and deposit it in the hand of those of scholars discernment who understand the sciences, I shall correct it and call it a || well-corrected book (…)]

Bibliographical reference
Antonucci 13, Goff – Heb 77, Habermann 6-I: 2, Iakerson 43, Marx 50, Sacchi 21, Seligsohn 32 , Soave 14, Vinograd Soncino 39. 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. 13

Cassuto, Umberto. 1910. "Incunaboli ebraici a Firenze". La Bibliofilía, 12(9): 349–356. 28 De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo. 1795. Annales hebraeo-typographici sec. XV. Parma: Ex regio typographeo. 30 (p.70)

Goff, Frederick Richmond. 1973. Incunabula in American Libraries; A Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections. Millwood: Kraus Reprint Co. 77

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-I: 2

Iakerson, Shim’on. 2004. Ḳaṭalog ha-inḳunabulim ha-ʻivriyim me-osef sifriyat beit ha-midrash le-rabanim be-ameriḳa [Catalogue of Hebrew Incunabula from the Collection of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Hebrew]. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary. 43

Marx, Moses. 1953. "Catalogue of Hebrew Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century Now in the Library of the Hebrew Union College". Studies in bibliography and Booklore 1 (June): 21-47. 50

Offenberg, A.K. 1990. Hebrew Incunabula in Public Collections: A First International census. Nieuwkoop: De Graaf. 88 Sacchi, Federico. 1877. I tipografi ebrei di Soncino. Cremona: Tipog. Ronzi e Signori. 21

Sander, Max. 1942. Le livre à figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu’à 1530; essai de sa bibliographie et de son histoire. Milan: Hoepli. 4905

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. 32

Soave, Moisè. 1878. Dei Soncino, celebri tipografi italiani nei secoli XV, XVI con elenco delle opere de essi. Venice: Longo. 14

Steinschneider, Moritz. 1852-1860. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana. Berolini: typis A. Friedlaender. 6513, 2. Tamani, Giulio. 1973. Inventario degli incunaboli ebraici della Biblioteca Palatina di Parma. Florence: Olschki. P. 287

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. Soncino 39

Further bibliographical reference (from ISTC): H 10523; IGI 6748 = VI E50; Sajó-Soltész 2135; IDL 2459; Madsen 2594, 4329; Voull(B) 3590; Ohly-Sack 1849; Walsh Heb-15, 16; Duff(JRL) p.1131; Oates 2722; Pr 7308; BMC XIII 47 & pl. p.179; Adler 30; EJ 158; Freimann p.114; Freimann(Fr) 45; Goldstein 59; Hill p.180; HSTC 81; Jacobs 71; Offenberg(Rosenthal) 11; Schwab 58; St 6513(2); Thes A55; Zedner p.582; GW M20032

Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) number: im00079500

Material Evidence in Incunabula - 12 copies: im00079500

Bibliography of the Hebrew Book (BHB) Catalogue at NLI: 150064

Catalogo del Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (OPAC SBN): PARE078558

WorldCat: 861787379, 233168534, 66918340, 612360996, 1007713809, 1082148954

Footprints: Mishneh Torah

Holdings
31 copies: NLI, Russian State Library, Berlin, Parma, BL, Cambridge, HUC, Yale, Columbia, LOC Click for full list
Asia
Israel Jerusalem
National Library of Israel
37 A 741
Russia Moscow Russian State Library MK Inc/4.168 (G)
Saint Petersburg Russian Institute of Oriental Studies - 2 copies - no permalink Inc 4. 168
[According to: Iakerson, S. M. 1988. Evreĭskie inkunabuly: opisanie ėkzempliarov, khraniashchikhsia v bibliotekakh Moskvy i Leningrada [Hebrew Incunabula: Description of Publications Kept in Libraries of Moscow and Leningrad, Russian]. Leningrad: Leningradskoe otdelenie instituta vostokovedenii Akademii nauk SSSR. 56, 57]
Europe
Denmark Copenhagen Det Kongelige Bibliotek - 2 copies Inc. Haun. 4329 fol.
Inc. Haun. 4328 fol.
France Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France - Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal FRBNF39302471
Germany Frankfurt am Main Universitätsbibliothek - imperfect Inc. hebr. 40
Italy Parma Biblioteca Palatina ST DER 1183
The Netherlands Amsterdam Bibliotheek Universiteit van Amsterdam - Allard Pierson Depot Inc. 129
United Kingdom Cambridge Cambridge University Library - books VIII-XIII and part of XIV only Inc.3.B.54.1[2256]
Trinity College Library VI.16.22
London British Library c.50.e.7
Lambeth Palace - Sion College Library Collection L40.4/57
Manchester University of Manchester - John Rylands University Library Incunable Collection 11100
Americas
Canada Ottawa Bibliothèque et Archives Canada / Library and Archives Canada BM520 .84 A2 1490 fol.
Toronto University of Toronto - Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library friedberg f 00031
United States Cambridge Harvard University - Houghton Library - 2 copies Hebrew 2000.71* (A)
Hebrew 2000.71* (B)
Cincinnati Hebrew Union College Library - 3 copies [1 imperfect] AA Marx 50
AA Marx 50a
AA non-Marx 4
New Haven Yale University - Beinecke Library Zi +7308
New York Columbia University Goff Heb-77
Jewish Theological Seminary - 2 copies + 19 leaves INC HEB 77 - c. 1 (377 leaves)
INC HEB 77 - c. 2 (87 leaves)
New York Public Library - 2 copies **P (Maimonides. Mishneh Torah. 1490) v. 1
**P (Maimonides. Mishneh Torah. 1490) v. 2
Yeshiva University - no permalink Inc 77
Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Libraries - Katz Center BM520.84 .A2 1490
Washington, DC Library of Congress BM520.84 .A2 1490 Hebr Cage

Unverified holdings
Austria Vienna Israel Kultusgemeinde (imperfect) - not found
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Czech Republic Prague National Library of the Czech Republic - not found
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Italy Lugo Biblioteca Comunale Fabrizio Trisi - not found
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Mantua Biblioteca Comunale Teresiana (imperfect) - not found
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Turin Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria (imperfect) - not found
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Verona Biblioteca Civica Vittorio Veneto - not found
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Switzerland Geneva Fondation Bodmer - imperfect - not found
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Online versions
^ Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City
Biblioteca Palatina, Parma
Goethe-Universität
National Library of Israel, Jerusalehm
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz