[Rabbinic law]. Anonymous

THE FIRST HEBREW PRINTER’S MARK IN ITALY. The Kol Bo was written at the end of the 13th or beginning of the 14th century. The Kol Bo, ( literally, “everything is within it’) contains almost 150 sections pertaining to: blessings, prayer, the synagogue, Sabbath, holidays, marriage, monetry matters, forbidden foods, visiting the sick, mourning etc. Included is one of the earliest commentaries on the text of the Hagadah which was later excerpted in the 19th century and included in certain editions of the Hagadah (see Yudlov 587 - where it was first published in Vilna, 1818 together with the commentaries of the Vilna Gaon and the Chayei Adam). Still unknown is the identity of the author and the relation of the book to R. Aaron Hakohen of Lunel's Orchoth Chaim, whose contents overlap the material in the Kol Bo. It is possible that the Kol Bo is by the same author - but an earlier draft of the Orchoth Chaim. Kol Bo draws on the works of many halachic authorities, be they R. Eliezer b. Nathan, R. Peretz of Corbeil, or R. Baruch b. Isaac, author of Sepher ha-Terumah. See Prof. S.Z. Havlin, EJ, Vol. X, cols. 1159-60 Because of the pernicious activity of the Dominicans, the printer, Soncino had been forced to leave Pesaro.The City of Rimini offered him hospitaity and enabled him to resume printing there. In gratitude “he adopted as his bookmark the Tower of Rimini, flanking it with a motto from Proverbs “A tower of strength is the Lord; in it shall run the righteous and be saved” - the first Hebrew printer’s mark in Italy. See D. Amram, the Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy p.130