Magna Biblia Rabbinica. With Targum and the major classical rabbinic commentaries. Revised by Johannes Buxtorf, together with Abraham Braunschweig. With a preface by Jacob ben Hayyim ben Isaac and Moses ben Yom-Tov.

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Lot 43
(BIBLE, Hebrew).

Magna Biblia Rabbinica. With Targum and the major classical rabbinic commentaries. Revised by Johannes Buxtorf, together with Abraham Braunschweig. With a preface by Jacob ben Hayyim ben Isaac and Moses ben Yom-Tov.

Four volumes bound here in two. Divisional titles within architectural woodcut borders, headings within woodcut cartouches. Scattered marginalia in English, Hebrew and Greek. “Specimen of Hebrew Writing” tipped into front of Vol. II. Vol. I: ff. 1, (5), 2-228; (1), 234-441, (2 blanks). * Vol. II: 442-705; 707-837, 839-881, 883-946, 7, (1), 66. (in pencil). Foxed and variously stained in places. Contemporary calf, rubbed and worn. Folio. Vinograd, Basle 248.

Basle: Ludwig Koenig 1618-19

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $2,250
The sixth - and most scholarly - edition of the Rabbinic Bibles. (See Darlow & Moule 5120).