---
title: "Joshua Solomon Soncino"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Joshua Solomon Soncino"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-27T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Talmud print history","Daniel Bomberg","tzurat ha-daf","Marvin J. Heller","Gershom Soncino"]
---


Printer of the first-ever printed Talmud tractate — Berakhot, 1483/84 — and,
per Marvin J. Heller's primary scholarship, the actual originator of the
Gemara-center/Rashi-inner-margin/Tosafot-outer-margin page layout that every
subsequent Talmud edition has followed "with rare exceptions." Matters to this
vault because he is the correction the vault's earlier Bomberg framing needed:
the layout is his, not Bomberg's; Bomberg's later, far more famous *editio
princeps* used Soncino's layout and is independently credited only with fixing
the standard pagination.

## References
- [[claim-soncino-1483-originated-talmud-gemara-rashi-tosafot-layout]]
- [[claim-bomberg-1520s-venice-talmud-set-standard-page-layout]] (the note it corrects)