Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end]. With vocalization points

AUCTION 41 | Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end]. With vocalization points

Opening title within woodcut foliate architectural-form border-piece. Divisional titles, each within historiated borders. Opening words within decorative borders. Numerous marginalia in Spanish, Latin and English. On title, signature of former owner "J. Jessop D[octor] D[ivinity." On penultimate leaf, the same owner writes in English, "On this day the 13th of June 1817, finished the reading of this volume the 5th time over…" and adds in Hebrew, "Thus far the Lord helped me.” ff. 506, pp.( 3). Dampstained, upper margin trimmed, few edges worn. Later vellum. 4to Vinograd, Antwerp 7; Darlow & Moule 5099; not in Adams

Antwerp: Christopher Plantin 1566

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

All of Plantin’s Hebrew Bibles "share a characteristic elegance”. Plantin re-arranged the type-composition of this Bible, and issued the same year, quarto, octavo and sextodecimo editions. See Israel Museum Catalogue, Plantin of Antwerp (1981) pp. 99-100. See also D.S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968), no.170