Chamishah Chumshei Torah. Hebrew text, with Aramaic translation of the Targum Onkelos on facing page

AUCTION 2 | Tuesday, June 03rd, 1997 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art Including Property from a Dutch Private Collector and the Late T. Nachum Gidal

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Lot 214

(BIBLE, Hebrew and Aramaic. PENTATEUCH, FIVE SCROLLS AND MEGILOTH).

Chamishah Chumshei Torah. Hebrew text, with Aramaic translation of the Targum Onkelos on facing page

Printer’s device on verso of title. Two headings within cartouches. Israel Mehlman copy with his notes on opening blank ff. (4), 352, 56, complete though with several ff. supplied from a shorter copy, ex library (with release stamps), marginalia, few stains and taped repairs, modern morocco, 16mo Adams B-1260; Darlow & Moule 2407; Deinard, Atikoth Yehudah p.39; Vinograd, Sabbioneta 41

Sabbioneta: Tobias Foa 1557

Est: $5,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $5,000

Important edition. Of pocket size, with a carefully revised Targum, set with vocalization (Nikud). A critical edition of this Targum was prepared by Abraham Berliner in 1884 (see D&M, 2425) A vellum copy of Foa’s Bible was sold Sotheby’s London, Property of the Earl of Rosebery and Midlothian, 5th December, 1994, lot 64