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Kol-Bo (Halakhic Compendium)
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description
[Italy: Unassigned (Naples?), ca. 1491–92]
Chancery folio (9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.; 249 x 190 mm). Type 1:185 (sq.), 2:85 (sq.). Double column, 47 lines. collation: pi6; 1–218 226: 179 (of 180) leaves, lacking only blank fol. 6, early inscriptions and pen trials in Hebrew and Italian on blank fol. 1r.; a short copy, the top line partly lost on 12/4; words and passages censored on about five pages. Late eighteenth-or early nineteenth-century mottled-paper boards, sheep tips, edges mottled red, green paper endleaves; very worn, scribbled inscriptions on upper cover.
Chancery folio (9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.; 249 x 190 mm). Type 1:185 (sq.), 2:85 (sq.). Double column, 47 lines. collation: pi6; 1–218 226: 179 (of 180) leaves, lacking only blank fol. 6, early inscriptions and pen trials in Hebrew and Italian on blank fol. 1r.; a short copy, the top line partly lost on 12/4; words and passages censored on about five pages. Late eighteenth-or early nineteenth-century mottled-paper boards, sheep tips, edges mottled red, green paper endleaves; very worn, scribbled inscriptions on upper cover.
Provenance
Moses Jeruham Morgenstern (Hebrew stamp, early nineteenth century?). Censors' signatures: Camillo Jagel, 1619; "17 Lug. 1762 Reuiste e ricorrette per me Alessandro Soloat [?]".
Literature
Offenberg 81; Goff Heb-67; Steinschneider 3589; Thes A94; Iakerson 78; BMC XIII 78 (C.50.c.10). See A. K. Offenberg, A Choice of Corals (Nieuwkoop, 1992), ch. III: "The Dating of the Kol Bo."
Condition
[Italy: Unassigned (Naples?), ca. 1491–92]
Chancery folio (9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.; 249 x 190 mm). Type 1:185 (sq.), 2:85 (sq.). Double column, 47 lines. collation: pi6; 1–218 226: 179 (of 180) leaves, lacking only blank fol. 6, early inscriptions and pen trials in Hebrew and Italian on blank fol. 1r.; a short copy, the top line partly lost on 12/4; words and passages censored on about five pages. Late eighteenth-or early nineteenth-century mottled-paper boards, sheep tips, edges mottled red, green paper endleaves; very worn, scribbled inscriptions on upper cover.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
First edition. The Kol Bo (lit. "All is Within") is an anonymous work of the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century, with 148 sections (listed in the preliminary table) dealing with blessings, prayer, the synagogue, Sabbath, holidays, marriage, monetary matters, forbidden foods, mourning, etc.; it also contains one of the earliest extant commentaries on the text of the Passover haggadah. The types of this edition do not appear elsewhere, and it is entirely unsigned. On 15/1r, a missing line of text is stamped in above the first line of the first column, as in other copies. An exemplary study of the watermarks by A. K. Offenberg suggests the most probable date of the edition is about 1491–92; several of its stocks are identical with those appearing in the 10 February 1491 Naples editions of David Kimhi, Sefer ha-Shorashim (Offenberg 106).