Sefer ha-Terumah, Barukh ben Isaac, Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1523

140 leaves (10 1/8 x 7 5/8 in.; 257 x 194 mm). collation: 1-17^{8, 184=140 leaves; upper blank portion of title torn away, some marginal soiling and dampstaining heavier toward the end, some signs of correction in quire 11, a few leaves lightly browned; censors' signatures( Laurentius Franguellus, 1575; Hippolite of Ferrara, 1601; Giovanni Domenico Vistorini, 1609) on final text leaf, f. 139r. Contemporary calf, blind-tooled in a panel design with a large lozenge in the central panel and a floral roll tool in the frame, ms. title label on spine; spine and corners torn, covers rubbed.}

Joseph ben Benjamin Samson Partom—his note on flyleaf and his signature on title page; Moses Loeb Mainz—his signature on title page; Michael and Isaac M. Mainz-bookplate recording their gift to the Yeshiva in Frankfurt-am-Main; Yeshivah of Frankfurt—their stamp on title page 

Vinograd, Venice 91; Haberman, Bomberg 81; Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book pp. 166-7; Simha Emmanuel, "Le-Toldotav shel R. Baruch bar Isaac," in Tarbiz vol. 69 (2000) pp. 423-40

140 leaves (10 1/8 x 7 5/8 in.; 257 x 194 mm). 1-178, 184=140 leaves; upper blank portion of title torn away, some marginal soiling and dampstaining heavier toward the end, some signs of correction in quire 11, a few leaves lightly browned; censors' signatures( Laurentius Franguellus, 1575; Hippolite of Ferrara, 1601;Giovanni Domenico Vistorini, 1609) on final text leaf, f. 139r. Contemporary calf, blind-tooled in a panel design with a large lozenge in the central panel and a floral roll tool in the frame, ms. title label on spine; spine and corners torn, covers rubbed.
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a rare complete copy including the final blank

Barukh ben Isaac of (late 12th-early 13th century) was a member of the Tosafist school that thrived in France, having studied under Isaac of Dampierre. For this reason, relatively few German authorities are cited by him, while citations of the French Tosafists Samuel ben Meir (RaSHBa"M) and Jacob of Ramerupt (Rabbeinu Tam) abound in his work. The book begins with a detailed digest of its contents (ff. 2r-23v); this serves as a synopsis and index to the halakhic material covered in the book's twelve subject areas, in 254 chapters of varying length. The author places great emphasis on this preliminary abstract, referring to it in the colophon. This volume is often cited by Isaac ben Moses (Or Zaru'a), Moses of Coucy (SeMa"G), Zedekiah Anav (Shibbolei ha-Leket), and Aaron of Lunel (Orhot Hayyim).  Recently, Simcha Emmanuel has shown that the references to the author of this work as Barukh of Worms are in fact a misnomer and a careful examination of Barukh's biography reveals that the geographic connection to Worms is inaccurate.