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

AUCTION 44 | Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 1:00

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

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Lot 68

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

Opening title within woodcut foliate architectural-form border-piece. Divisional titles, each within historiated borders. Opening words within decorative borders. Broad-margined copy. Numerous Greek and Latin marginalia interspersed with Hebrew. On front fly, previous owners dating back to "Worms, 1580" ff. 506, pp.( 3). Wanting the blank leaf between Pentateuch and Five Megilloth. Light stains. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled vellum with elegant spiral hasps, spine in compartments, rubbed, corner bosses lacking. 4to Vinograd, Antwerp 7; Darlow & Moule 5099; not in Adams

Antwerp: Christopher Plantin 1566

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $5,000

A majestic binding. All of Plantin’s Hebrew Bibles "share a characteristic elegance”. 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