Hebraic Section. 4º
Goff: Heb–95; Hain: 14245; Offen: 55; Iakerson: 5; ISTC: is00625100
The copy in the Library of Congress is missing fols. 1, 2, 7, 8; eleven leaves apparently from the end of the volume, and the two leaves containing simanim 290-295. Several pages have hand-written notes in margins. No signs of censorship. Bound in ancient brown leather boards, beautifully embossed but considerably cracked in places.

Hebraic Section. 2º
Rare Book and Special Collections Division. 2º
Goff: Heb–69; Hain: 10060; Offen: 50; Iakerson:16; ISTC: il00189700
The Library of Congress has two copies. The copy in the Hebraic Section is bound in nineteenth century half leather with grained cloth sides and marbled end papers, and the title tooled in gold letters on the spine: Levi ben Gershon. The Pentateuch. The binding has come loose from the text block; most pages are somewhat water stained but completely legible. Fols. 1-5 are laminated and have come loose from the first gathering. The margins of some leaves have been restored to size with paper.

The copy in the Rare Book Division is bound in light grey boards, and the text is complete and in very good condition. Some leaves have a running title added in by hand, but apart from these, and an owner’s inscription on fol. 1r, there are no hand-written notes. There is a censor’s signature on 342r: Gio Domenico Irosolimitano, followed by what appears to be part of the word “Anno,” but without any visible date. The opening word “אמר” on fol. 1r appears to be written in manuscript (in brown ink) rather than printed, and is enclosed by a rather shakily-drawn cartouche. At the top of the leaf (fol. 1r) is a hand-written title in black ink: פירוש הרלב״ג. Foliation in a modern hand, in pencil.

Rare Book and Special Collections Division. 8º
Goff: Heb–70; Hain: 10061; Offen: 51; Iakerson: 17; ISTC: il00189750
The Library of Congress copy is bound in wooden boards, apparently quite ancient and rather crudely repaired, but the book itself is beautifully preserved and complete, though the paper is somewhat darkened. There are a very few marginal notes lightly penned in.

Hebraic Section. 2º
Goff: Heb–28; Hain:13451; Offen: 34; Iakerson: 73; ISTC: ib00525860
The copy in the Library of Congress is complete in twentieth-century goatskin binding, but fols. 1 and 143-153 have been supplied in facsimile and blend almost seamlessly into the book. The text underwent considerable censoring at least in the beginning (e.g., fols. 4r and 21v); but the final leaf (fol. 153), which is of course in facsimile, does not have a censor’s signature. Due to the washing and surface cleaning of the book by the Library’s Conservation Division, the iron gall ink used by the censor has largely corroded, leaving the printed text underneath fully legible.

Rare Book and Special Collections Division. 2º
Goff: Heb–18; Hain:12568; Offen: 13; Iakerson: 19; ISTC: ib00525570
Bound in leather. The book was printed on vellum, and though the leaves are heavily soiled and dotted with worm holes, they are entirely legible and clear. There are a few marginal notes, all of which have practically faded. This copy was at one time owned by Giovanni Bernardo de Rossi (1742-1831), the noted Christian Hebraist and bibliophile, and a handwritten note bearing his signature comes before the start of the book on paper that has been sized to fit. In a four-page memo hand-written on the letterhead of the Commune di Bologna and the Museo del Risorgimento and pasted onto the inside cover, De Rossi calls this edition “rarissima.”

Hebraic Section. 4º
Goff: Heb–98; Hain: 9369; Offen: 57; Iakerson: 21; ISTC: is00625250
Bound in nineteenth-century marbled boards. This is a well-preserved copy with only a few light stains and some discoloration of paper, but it lacks the opening first page (blank in all extant copies) and fols. 48-60, so that the colophon on fol. 59v-60r is also missing. The book was tightly rebound by the Library’s Conservation Division in 2009. The leaves have been foliated in pencil by a modern hand; there are no comments in the margins, and no signs of censorship. A hand-written remark in Hebrew at the bottom of the first leaf notes that this work was printed by Soncino in 1484 (שנת רמ״ד), and is signed “Ephraim Deinard.”

Hebraic Section. 4º
Rare Book and Special Collections Division. 4º
Goff: Heb–61; Hain: 9368; Offen: 76; Iakerson: 23; ISTC: ij00218530
The Library of Congress has two copies. The copy in the Hebraic Section is bound in twentieth-century green cloth, somewhat discolored. It is in a fairly good state of preservation though the paper is brittle and stained, and one persistent worm hole goes right through the entire text at about line 6. This copy is missing the last leaf with its colophon (fol. 20v).

The copy in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division is bound in nineteenth-century brown calf rimmed in gold, and is a clean, excellent copy. It is complete, and unlike the copy in the Hebraic section does indeed contain the colophon (fol. 20v). There are three hand-written notes (1r, 6v, 7a).

Rare Book and Special Collections Division. 4º
Goff: Heb–83; Hain: 13011; Offen: 93; Iakerson: 24; ISTC: im00624800 Bound in twentieth-century black morocco with title tooled in gold: Mischna Pirke Aboth mit Kommentar. There are no visible notes or marginal corrections. Fols. 2r – 4r show repair at the top, and the text (including the title to the introduction on 2r) has been filled in by hand. The Mishnaic text begins on 17r, and the initial word משה is flanked by a raised hand with a pointed index finger on either side, drawn in by hand.

Hebraic Section. 2°
Rare Book and Special Collections Division. 2°
Goff: Heb–67; Hain: --; Offen: 81; Iakerson: 78; ISTC: ik00038300
The Library of Congress has two copies. The copy in the Hebraic Section is bound in red leather with red marbled endpapers and the Hebrew title is tooled in gold on the spine: כל בו. The leaves are considerably soiled and in some cases the marginal area has been restored to size with paper. The extant text begins on fol. 2r and is badly torn at the top. There are a very few handwritten notes (e.g., 17v) and the colophon on 179v is intact.

The copy in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division is bound in light tan boards with the title hand-written on the spine in brown ink: Kol Bo. Neapel (sic), 1490. Fols. 1-2 are missing; the extant text begins on fol. 3 with siman 16, and there are several handwritten notes at the top of this page, including two notations of the title (כל בו) in different hands. Fols. 3-9 have been reinforced with strips of paper on the outer margin, as have some of the bifola on the inner margin. The main text begins on 7r and there is a brief inscription in Hebrew at the top of the page. This is a very clean copy with hardly any notes and no signs of censorship.

Rare Book and Special Collections Division. 2°
Goff: Heb–22; Hain: 13408; Offen: 27; Iakerson: 25; ISTC: ib00525760
This copy is in excellent condition and beautifully bound in tooled leather with Latin title on binding: Prophetae Prior cum Com Rabbin Sonc. 1486. Bookplate from the Library of the Duke of Sussex. Fol. 1r, originally blank, has a hand-drawn title-page with the word נביאים, now almost completely faded, as is the hand-written note in Hebrew at the top. The watermark of the hand holding a sword on fols. 166 and 168 (the end of the text), unique amongst Hebrew incunabula, is noted by Shimon Iakerson as being extremely rare and found again only in eighteenth-century paper (Iakerson, Vol. I, p. 96, note 9).

Hebraic Section. 2°
Rare Book and Special Collections Division. 2°
Goff: Heb–64; Hain: 606; Offen: 3; Iakerson: 27; ISTC: ij00479800
The Library of Congress has two copies. The copy in the Hebraic Section is beautifully bound in twentieth-century tan goatskin binding; the original binding of calf over pasteboards is preserved inside of the box created by the Conservation Division to house the book. Text is complete and in good condition, with no signs of censorship and no written notes apart from owners’ (?) signatures on first and last leaf. The colophon on fol. 108r is intact.

The copy in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division is bound with the pages of an old Hebrew book; the title is tooled in gold on the spine over a square of brown leather: Albo. Sefer Iccarim. Soncino 1485. The margins of some leaves have been repaired to size (e.g., fols. 2-7); others have been reinforced with tape on the outer margins (e.g., fols. 12-13). The leaves have been foliated in a modern hand in the lower left-hand corner but these numbers are inaccurate; the printer’s introduction on fol. 1v is missing and the printed text actually begins from fol. 2r. The lovely woodcut למה at the top of 2r is intact but the surrounding paper shows considerable repair. There are two blurred inscriptions on fol. 108r (here misnumbered as 103) above and below the colophon, and two bookplates pasted down on the end-paper indicating the Vollbehr Collection. There are only a very few hand-written notes and no sign of censorship.

Hebraic Section. 2°
Rare Book and Special Collections Division. 2°
Goff: Heb–24; Hain: 13410; Offen: 29; Iakerson: 26; ISTC: ib00525780
Copy in Hebraic Section bound in twentieth-century black goatskin. Title page and fol. 1 slightly torn and repaired. There are a few censor’s marks, now faded. Censor’s signature: Luigi da Bologna (date illegible).

For description of copy in Rare Book and Special Collection Divisions, see catalogue entry.

Rare Book and Special Collections Division. 2°
Goff: Heb–73; Hain: 10425; Offen: 83; Iakerson: 30; ISTC: im00007850
This edition was printed in two volumes in both paper and parchment copies; the Library of Congress has only Volume II and this is printed on paper, somewhat brittle and stained. The copy is bound in marbled boards, with leather corners. The text shows censor’s marks, which have largely faded, and bears the censor’s signature at the end [fol.154v]: Domenico Irosolimitano [Hierosolymitano], 1571 (though it should be pointed out that this is several years earlier than any of the other dates noted by Popper for this censor, and may perhaps be more correctly read as 1591).

Hebraic Section. 2°
Goff: Heb–56; Hain: 1882; Offen: 72; Iakerson: 94; ISTC: ij00000700
The copy in the Library of Congress is missing simanim 1 through the first half of 17. Simanim 17-52 are written in manuscript; 137-138 are torn and missing a large part of the text. Paper is somewhat stained. Bound in black and white marbled cardboard (rather like a student’s copy-book of old). No hand-written notes or signs of censorship.

Hebraic Section. 2°
Goff: Heb–29; Hain: 8346 (I); Offen: 35; Iakerson: 44; ISTC: ib00525870
Bound in nineteenth-century half leather with grained cloth sides of maroon, and title tooled in gold on the spine: D. Kimchi on Psalms XXII – CL. Naples, 1487. It lacks the first 19 leaves (Psalms 1 - 21: 5) as well as the leaves from Psalms 38: 9 – 49:19. Only a very few hand-written notes (e.g. at the end of Ps. 24) and no signs of censorship; a few psalms have been numbered (in Hebrew letters) in a modern hand.

Rare Book and Special Collections Division. 2°
Goff: Heb–34; Hain: 8346 (III); Offen: 43; Iakerson: 45; ISTC: ib00525940
The Library of Congress copy is beautifully preserved and bound in nineteenth-century black grained cloth sides, with a very few lightly penned-in notes and corrections in the margins.

Hebraic Section. 2°
Rare Book and Special Collections Division. 2°
Goff: Heb–85; Hain: 9796; Offen: 95; Iakerson: 36; ISTC: im00866240
There are two copies in the Library of Congress. The copy in the Hebraic Section is bound in twentieth-century black cloth. It is missing the first two leaves, iincluding the opening poem with the acrostic משה at the beginning of Book I. The extant text begins on fol.3 with the list of negative commandments (from the end of no. 16 on). The paper is highly brittle and stained and there are many worm holes. The beginning of Book II is intact with verses from Psalms arranged in an acrostic and the decorative wood print of the word הנני. Book II is missing the last few leaves, including the colophon.

The copy in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division is of considerable interest. On the end flyleaf is pasted a bill of sale written and signed by “Gershom ben Moshe Soncino of blessed memory, printer.” It was issued to one Moshe ben Shmuel Diena on 25th of Tevet (December 29, 1488), and stipulates that the buyer may not resell the volume for a period of two years (Karp, p. 13).

Hebraic Section. 2°
Goff: Heb–87; Hain:11670; Offen: 97 [Perush ha-Torah]; Iakerson: 100; ISTC: im00866160
Bound in two volumes: Vol. I (Parts 1-2); Vol. II (Parts 3-5). Vol. I is unbound and in a very poor state of preservation, with many missing leaves and a few fragments encased in mylar. Extant text begins from the pericope Toldot. Vol. II is bound in marbled boards tipped in leather and begins from Ve-Yikra. The pages are stained and have a few tears; these do not, however, affect the text. There are signs of censorship, now faded, and a very few handwritten comments (e.g. fol. 119r-v). Last leaf, repaired with tissue laminate, is heavily damaged with a minor loss to text on the recto side that does not affect the poem printed on the verso.

Hebraic Section. 4°
Goff: Heb–7; Hain: 2727; Offen: 9; Iakerson: 50; ISTC: ib00296660
The title page is beautifully drawn in by hand with an architectural border; the first three leaves are also in manuscript. There are some occasional hand-written comments and corrections in the margins. Bound in nineteenth-century red calf with title tooled in gold: חובת הלבבות Naples,1489. Leaves stained and discolored with conspicuous worm-holes, and show repair. No hand-written notes or signs of censorship.

Hebraic Section. 2°
Goff: Heb–36; Hain: --; Offen: 1; Iakerson: 101; ISTC: id00101800
The copy in the Library of Congress missing ff. 1-2, and blank leaves have been inserted for ff. 140-141; 154-159; 163; 169-170. Fols. 3-4 are damaged and missing text. A very few hand-written notes in margins (e.g., 34r; 137v). LOC copy bound in twentieth-century leather with title tooled in gold: Abudarham Lisbon 1489. No signs of censorship.

Hebraic Section. 2°
Goff: Heb–48; Hain: 1880; Offen: 62; Iakerson: 42; ISTC: ij00000250
Complete text in fairly good condition, though bound in ancient boards badly in need of preservation (and in some cases coming unbound). Occasional notes in margins (some quite lengthy); no sign of censorship.

Hebraic Section. 4°
Rare Book and Special Collections Division. 4°
Goff: Heb–68; Hain: 9865; Offen: 82; Iakerson: 56; ISTC: ij00000100
The Library of Congress has two copies. The copy in the Hebraic Section lacks Sefer Hazon but has all the haskamot, or approbations, indicated in Wiener (142a), as well as an approbation by David ben Judah Messer Leon and one and-a-half pages of corrections. This copy also contains at least four extra leaves of haskamot (as indicated by the catch-word on the last extant leaf). The extant text begins from fol. 3, which is torn at the top and at the margins, affecting the text. It is bound in worn grey cloth over boards, coming away from the spine.

The copy held by the Rare Book and Special Collections Division is a paste-up collation, beautifully bound in vellum. Neither copy bears censors’ marks.

Hebraic Section. 2°
Goff: Heb–77; Hain: 10523; Offen: 88; Iakerson: 43; ISTC: im00079500
Bound in two volumes in identical light grey boards with hand-written titles on the spine in large black letters: היד החזקה להרמבם. Vol. I is missing the first eight leaves, including the printer’s preface and the author’s introduction, and the beginning of the list of the book’s contents. It ends in the middle of the list of laws pertaining to sacrifices (no. 13); Vol. II continues directly with law no. 14, and goes on without loss of text till fol. 380, with its colophon. In both volumes there are running titles on many leaves written in by hand at the top of the page, generally just a single word or two. There are no hand-written notes in the margins, and no sign of censorship.

Hebraic Section. 2°
Goff: Heb–88; Hain:11671; Offen: 98; Iakerson: 52; ISTC: im00866180
Bound in worn, nineteenth-century black grained cloth sides; the case binding has come detached. There is a large tear on fol. 1 but it does not affect the lovely opening woodcut. Leaves stained and often creased with considerable insect damage, but a highly legible copy even so. Some of the bifola have been reinforced with strips of paper.

Hebraic Section. 2°
Rare Book and Special Collections Division. 2°
Goff: Heb–40; Hain: 6034; Offen: 106; Iakerson: 59; ISTC: id00102740
The Library of Congress has two copies. The copy in the Hebraic Section is bound in green velvet, heavily worn. Missing fol. 1; fols. 2-8 are given in manuscript, as are fols. 123, 127, and 130. This copy has been censored twice: Domenico Irosol[imitano] 1597; Dominico Carretto, 1618 (and cf. Popper, p. 140, no. 61). Inscription of ownership on the end leaf: יצחק אוריג׳ה בן אדוניה. The colophon in this book (167v) is known for having two different versions, one which gives the printer’s name and one which does not. Both copies in the Library of Congress belong to the second group, like the copy termed “59b” in Iakerson, Vol. I, pp. 289-290.

The copy in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division is complete and in excellent condition, though some of the leaves are rather wrinkled, particularly at the beginning. It is bound in camel-colored leather which does not, however, close entirely shut. The beautiful ornamental border (missing in the Hebraic Section copy) has some changes unique to this copy. It has the usual two winged and naked cherubs, or putti, in the lower part of the border, but the third cherub is missing from its usual place in the upper right-hand corner, as the paper here is torn. This tear has been carefully taped over with a piece of paper on which a figure is lightly sketched in, depicting a naked crouching man (his left leg modestly drawn forward) with a full beard, a pleasant expression, and what appears to be a turban around his head. The round medallion between the two winged cherubs, which was left empty by the printer and intended for the owner’s name or coat-of-arms, is here filled in with a somewhat roughly hand-drawn flower in orange-colored pencil or crayon. There are two owners’ (?) signatures in Hebrew and various scribblings on this same leaf (1r), but otherwise very few hand-written notes (e.g., 40r; and 166v in Italian). Like the copy of this book in the Hebraic Section, the colophon does not contain the printer’s name (see above), and has been censored twice: Domenico Irosolimitano 1597; Dominico Carretto, 1618.

Hebraic Section. 2°
Goff: Heb–20; Hain: 12570; Offen: 17; Iakerson:102; ISTC: ib00525640
This is a fragment of the Lisbon Pentateuch with two large chunks of text; one from Genesis; and one from Exodus.
The extant texts are: (1) fols. 1-24: Genesis 21:4– 30:24; (2) fols. 25a – 108a: Exodus 9:1 – 40:39. 2 folios missing from this chunk: Exodus 34:26 -35:10. These would go in between fols. 95b and 96a. LC’s copy has 108 fols. - a complete edition has 453 fols. Image unavailable as this piece is currently undergoing treatment in the Library's Conservation Division.

Hebraic Section. 4°
Goff: Heb–43; Hain: 9137; Offen: 58; Iakerson: 66; ISTC: ii00059500
This copy is missing much of the printer’s introduction as well as most of the author’s preface in rhymed prose (fols. 1-2). Book has been rebound by the Conservation Division of the Library of Congress to approximate the earlier nineteenth-century half-vellum binding with decorative paper sides, which has also been preserved intact in the box housing the book. No hand-written notes or signs of censorship.

Hebraic Section. 2°
Goff: Heb–4; Hain: 2212; Offen: 6; Iakerson 54; ISTC: ia01417300
Bound in a single volume and encased in an envelope-binding of brown leather which is clearly centuries old but probably not quite contemporary with the book itself, as the pages have been trimmed. The book is missing fols. 1-2, 4 and all of Part 3. Paper heavily stained and creased, particularly in Part 1, which shows considerable signs of use and has the greatest number of hand-written notes. There is a lengthy hand-written note on the blank verso of the leaf ending Part 1 (69v). No signs of censorship.

Hebraic Section. 2°
Goff: Heb 82; Hain: 11243; Offen: 92; Iakerson: 60; ISTC: im00624700
This copy is a 13-page fragment of the 1492 Mishnah and contains the complete text of Pirke Avot. Its presence in the Library of Congress is not noted in any of the standard reference works. Unlike other known copies of the 1492 Mishnah, where the text to Pirke Avot is printed from ff. 202v-214v (unfoliated in the original), here the text begins and ends on the recto side of the paper. This fragment is bound in nineteenth-century brown marbled boards with green and gilt end-papers of a Florentine design. The paper is crisp and well-preserved apart from what may be water stains on the bottom of the last nine leaves, and a small worm-hole at the very edge of a few leaves in the middle part of the fragment. There are no hand-written remarks or signs of censorship.

Hebraic Section. 2°
Goff: Heb–23; Hain: 13409; Offen: 28; Iakerson:106; ISTC: ib00525770
This copy is a fragment containing text from the Book of Judges alone (47 leaves). Text begins from Judges 6: 12 and continues till the end of Levi ben Gershom’s commentary on Judges (166v). A number of leaves are missing in between: Judges 9: 30 - 9: 56; 11: 8 - 11: 39; 17: 1 - 18: 6. The book is bound in rust-colored cloth from which a number of leaves have come loose; the final six leaves show repair.