Hebrew). Chamisha Chumshei Torah [Pentateuch-end].

<<With important association to Scotland.>> Front pastedown inscribed in a 19th-century hand: “This volume was brought to the Sheriff Court at Edinburgh, to remain there, to be used in the proper and efficient putting upon oath of Jewish witnesses.” Although Jews have been present in Scotland since at least the late 17th century, Edinburgh’s Jewish community dates back to 1817. <<Accompanied by:>> Newspaper report relating to the exhibition of this volume in Edinburgh, and correspondence between the Custodian of the Valmadonna Trust and the Sheriff Clerk’s Office, Edinburgh.