Hebrew and Aramaic. PENTATEUCH). Chamishah Chumshei Torah. With Targum Onkelos on each facing page.

A luxury copy beautifully printed entirely on vellum by Tobias Foa under the patronage of Vespasiano Gonzaga. 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). 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. See Die Hebraeische Pergamentdrucke, in: Zeitschrift fuer Hebraeische Bibliographie, vol. XV (1911) no. 77 (recording seven copies). For a similar copy sold at auction see Sotheby’s London, Property of the Earl of Rosebery and Midlothian, 5th December, 1994, lot 64. According to Amram “No Hebrew press of the [fifteenth] century was more fortunate in the number and quality of its workmen” (p. 291)