(Hebrew and Aramaic). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [Pentateuch]. With Five Scrolls (Megilloth) and Haphtaroth. Targum Onkelos on facing pages (Chumash).
Auction 94 |
Thursday, June 17th,
2021 at 11:00am
Rare & Excellent Hebrew Printed Books: From the Library of Arthur A. Marx
Lot 52
(BIBLE).
(Hebrew and Aramaic). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [Pentateuch]. With Five Scrolls (Megilloth) and Haphtaroth. Targum Onkelos on facing pages (Chumash).
Sabbioneta: Tobias Foa 1558
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
PRICE REALIZED $5,000
Charming edition. Of pocket size, with a carefully revised Targum, set with vocalization (Nikud). In the introduction, a poem expresses that the small size of the volume will enable the reader to comfortably review that week’s Torah portion along with Targum.
Referring to the Foa press, David Amram writes: “No Hebrew press of the (sixteenth) century was more fortunate in the number and quality of its workmen” (Hebrew Printing in Italy, p. 291). Foa published in the same year differing issues of this Bible with variations relating to the presence or otherwise of Haphtaroth, Megiloth, Targum and Nikud.
A vellum copy of Foa’s Bible was sold by Kestenbaum & Company, 26th June 2001, lot 62; see also Sotheby’s London, Property of the Earl of Rosebery and Midlothian, 5th December, 1994, lot 64.