Mivḥar ha-peninim

All notes by Chaim Meiselman:Complete title statement: ספר מבחר הפינינים : במליצת החכמים הקדמונים ומשלי פילוסופים הראשונים ומוסרם ומצותם ודבריהם וחידותם בכל ענין שאדם צריך אליו בחכמה ובמוסר ובדרך ארץ / מסודר לשערים בכל ענינים. עם פירושו.Sefer Mivḥar ha-peninim : be-melitsat ha-ḥakhamim ha-ḳadmonim u-mishle filosofim ha-rishonim u-musaram u-mitsvotam ṿe-divrehem ṿe-ḥidotam be-khol ʻinyan she-adam tsarikh elaṿ be-ḥokhmah ube-musar ube-derekh erets / mesudar le-sheʻarim bekhol ʻinyanim. ʻim pirusho.Imprint information is from the colophon.Original paginations runs through each of the three works printed as issued.Signatures: 1-22⁴ (signature marks in Hebrew and Arabic numerals).Even boḥen (the third work) is followed by a numbered summary of the work.The completion of Mivḥar ha-peninim was in Shevaṭ 1545 (from the colophon note on 40 verso). The completion of the entire volume was Purim 1546 (note at end of the volume).This is a volume of three works printed 1545-6 in Venice by Cornelius Adelkind; the first work is the Mivḥar ha-peninim attributed to R. Solomon ibn Gabirol (Málaga 1021 - Valencia 1070) and is comprised of aphorisms and philosophical apothegms; this work was first printed at Soncino in 1484 by Joshua Solomon b. Israel Soncino. The second work is the Beḥinat ʻolam by R. Yedidiah ha-Bedershi (Béziers? 1270s? - Perpignan? Montpellier? 1340?), also a philosophic work on themes of futility and vanity; this volume was first printed at Mantua by Estellina Conat, approximately 1476. The third work is Even boḥen by R. Kalonymus b. Kalonymus of Arles (1286-7 - 1328?) on ethics and rebuke; it was first printed at Naples in 1489 by Joseph Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser.Mivḥar ha-peninim and Beḥinot ʻolam are printed in a single column of wide lines; Even boḥen is printed in double-columns.