List number 4
Short Title Sefer ha-maḥbarot
Full Title - Hebrew ספר המחברות למר עמנואל זלה"ה

Full Title - Transliterated Sefer ha-maḥbarot le-mar immanuel zalha"h
Full Title - English ["The Book of Immanuel's Notebooks"]
Date - Hebrew כ"ו בחשוון, רנ"ב
Date - Georgian [October 30th, 1491]
Dating By colophon
Place of publiation Soncino
Format f°, Hebrew (Sephardi [Merubah]), woodcut decorated headlines
Subject matter Secular Hebrew material (Literature)
Author - Hebrew עמנואל בן שלמה הרומי
Author - English Immanuel of Rome (Immanuel Romano)
Colophon text ותשלם כל מלאכת ספר זה הנקרא מחברת עמנואל על ידי צעיר המחוקקים גרשם המחוקקי [כך] || בן המ"ר [?] משה זצ"ל זרע ישראל איש שונצינ"ו ותהי השלמתו פה בריש"ה אשר תחת ממשלת הפרר"ה || מוויניצי"ה יר"ה היום יום שני בשבת כ"ו לחדש מרחשוון שנת חמשת אלפים ורנ"ב לבריאת || עולם וה' ברחמיו יזכנו להתחיל שאר ספרי קדש מעולפים ספירים בתורת אלדי[ם] || ולהרביץ תורה בישראל כאות נפשינו וישמחנו בבנין אריאל [?] עם כל ישראל אמן

Colophon text - translated Work on this book in its entirety, known as the Notebooks of Emmanuel, was completed by the youngest of the incisors, Gershom the [printer] || son of the sage rabbi Moshe, seed of Israel, the man of [Soncino]   it was completed here in Brescia, the domain of Ferrara || of His Venetian Excellence [i.e., of Ludovico Sforza]   today, Monday the 26th day of Markhershṿan, in the year five thousand and r.n.b. [i.e., 5252] to the creation || of the world   may God in his mercy credit us to start the work on the rest of the holy books of his Torah || as precious as Sapphires, to promote Torah in Israel and rejoice in the building of Ariel [?] with all of Israel, Amen

Bibliographical reference
Antonucci 16, Cassuto 37, Goff – Heb 43, Habermann 6-II: 5, Iakerson 66, Sacchi 25, Seligsohn 37, Soave 22, Vinograd Brescia 3. 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. 16

Cassuto, Umberto. 1910. "Incunaboli ebraici a Firenze". La Bibliofilía, 12(9): 349–356. 37 De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo. 1795. Annales hebraeo-typographici sec. XV. Parma: Ex regio typographeo. 39 (p.84)

Goff, Frederick Richmond. 1973. Incunabula in American Libraries; A Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections. Millwood: Kraus Reprint Co. 43

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-II: 5

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. 66

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. 23

Offenberg, A.K. 1990. Hebrew Incunabula in Public Collections: A First International census. Nieuwkoop: De Graaf. 58 Sacchi, Federico. 1877. I tipografi ebrei di Soncino. Cremona: Tipog. Ronzi e Signori. 25

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. 37

Soave, Moisè. 1878. Dei Soncino, celebri tipografi italiani nei secoli XV, XVI con elenco delle opere de essi. Venice: Longo. 22

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. Brescia 3

Further bibliographical reference (from ISTC): H 9137; Veneziani(Brescia) 212; CIBN Heb-17; Zehnacker 834; IGI 5140 = VI E40; Sajó-Soltész 1778; IDL 2450; Madsen 2083, 4256, 4316; Ohly-Sack 1603, 1604, 1605; Voull(B) 2839; Günt(L) 546; Walsh Heb-29; Oates 2634; Duff(JRL) p.913; Bod-inc Heb-35; Pr 7021; BMC XIII 68 & pl. p.213; Adler 19; Cowley p.254; EJ 123; Freimann p.115; Freimann(Fr) 29; Goldstein 61; Hill p.179; HSTC 83; Jacobs 80; Roest 458; Schwab 68; St 5269(1); Thes A77; Wach II 161; Zedner p.324; GW M11978

Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) number: ii00059500

Material Evidence in Incunabula - 25 copies: ii00059500

Bibliography of the Hebrew Book (BHB) Catalogue at NLI: 155985

WorldCat: 67801982, 644316509, 233065330, 54894860, 861938843, 1007724900, 867748193, 1082149006, 1082148558, 809799312

Footprints: Mahberot 'Imanu'el

Holdings
35 copies: NLI, Moscow, BnF, Dublin Marsh’s, Florence Centrale, BL, Cambridge, Bodleian, HUC, JTS, LOC Click for full list


Asia
Israel Jerusalem National Library of Israel - imperfect 71 A 3672
Russia Moscow Russian State Library - 2 copies MK Inc/8.125.5 (G)
MK Inc/8.125.7 (G)
Saint Petersburg Russian Institute of Oriental Studies 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. 96]
Europe
France Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France RES P-YA-1
Germany Erfurt Universitätsbibliothek Mon.typ 1491 4° 00014
Hamburg Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky AC VII, 34
Frankfurt am Main Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg - 2 copies Inc. hebr. 63
Inc. hebr. 64
Jena Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek 4 Rabb.II,81
Kassel Universitätsbibliothek Kassel AC VII, 34
Leipzig Universitätsbibliothek Inc.Civ.Lips.52
Ireland Dublin Marsh's Library Record #16076
Italy Brescia Biblioteca Queriniana - 2 copies Inc.A.VI.3
Lechi.150
Switzerland Basel Universitätsbibliothek - Hauptbibliothek UBH Frey-Gryn A IV 43
Zurich Zentralbibliothek (imperfect) Heid 3543
The Netherlands Amsterdam Bibliotheek Universiteit van Amsterdam - Allard Pierson Depot Inc. 130
United Kingdom Cambridge Cambridge University Library Inc.5.B.23.10[2189]
London British Library G.11154*
Manchester Manchester University - John Rylands Library Special Collections 15706
The Vatican Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - 2 copies INC.IV.706
STAMP.ROSS.536
Americas
Canada Ottawa Bibliothèque et Archives Canada / Library and Archives Canada PJ5050 I6M4 1491
Toronto University of Toronto - Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library friedberg 00076
United States Cambridge Harvard University - Houghton Library GEN Hebrew 2000.80*
Cincinnati Hebrew Union College Library AA Marx 23
New Haven Yale University - Beinecke Library Zi 7021
New York Columbia University Goff Heb-43
Jewish Theological Seminary - 2 copies + 19 leaves INC HEB 43
INC HEB 43
New York Public Library **P (Immanuel ben Solomon. Mahbarot. 1491)
Yeshiva University - no permalink Inc 43
San Marino, CA Huntington Library 84863
Washington, DC Library of Congress LJ229
Unverified holdings
Austria Kremsmünster Benediktinerstift, Stiftsbibliothek - not found
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Denmark Copenhagen Det Kongelige Bibliotek - online resource only
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Hungary Budapest Jewish Theological Seminary - unable to verify
Italy Florence Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Magl. A.6.10? Not found
Modena Biblioteca Estense Universitaria - not found
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Turin Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria - not found
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The United Kingdom Oxford Bodleian Library - not found
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Online versions
^ Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence
Goethe-Universität, version 2, version 3
National Library of Israel, Jerusalehm, version 2