Hebrew. PENTATEUCH ). Sepher Ezrath Hasopher, Chamishah Chumashei Torah, Tikun Sophrim Vavei Ha’amudim

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Hebrew. PENTATEUCH ). Sepher Ezrath Hasopher, Chamishah Chumashei Torah, Tikun Sophrim Vavei Ha’amudim

Without Nikud. Five parts bound in one volume. Title in Hebrew and Spanish dated 1767. Additional engraved opening title page by A. Santroos (dated 1769). Binding dated1899 with initials”A. d C. Sr.” ff. 264. Some staining, lower right hand margin of first three leaves frayed with some marginal repair not affecting text. Later gilt stamped morocco, spine reapired retaining original backstrip, recased, rubbed. 8vo Vinograd, Amsterdam 1942 (without pagination); Ben Yaakov, p. 633, no.26,1

Amsterdam: n.p. 1767-1769

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $600

Prepared as a model for Scribes writing a Torah Scroll. The text is arranged to conform with Halachic Law relating to the Scribal arts. Each pair of facing pages represents one column of the Torah - traditionally 42 lines starting with the letter “Vav.” The “Shira” and “Ha’azinu” portions are printed on wider leaves and folded, to follow the wider columns necessary in the written Torah. These “Tikun Sophrim guides were published in two variants, both with and without Nikud. Vinograd does not differentiate between the two.