Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end]

AUCTION 43 | Thursday, April 02nd, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 60

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Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end]

Title within ornate arch, three divisional titles, initial word of each Book within frame pp. 506, (3). Some staining, Latin marginalia with Hebrew written in red ink in a neat early hand, verse enumeration in black ink in a different hand. Later calf, rubbed, spine detatched. 4to Vinograd, Antwerp 26; Adams B-1234; Darlow & Moule 5104

Antwerp: Christopher Plantin 1580-1582

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $900

All of Plantin’s Hebrew Bibles "share a characteristic elegance.” See D.S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968), no.170. See also Israel Museum Catalogue, Plantin of Antwerp (1981) pp. 99-100. Although every fifth verse is numbered along the inside margin - (full verse-enumeration does not occur until Athias’s edition of 1661) - an early owner has neatly penned the full enumeration through text until p.40