(BIBLE, Hebrew)

Estimate: $10,000–$15,000
Hammer price: $15,000

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1524-5

Description

Edited by Jacob b. Chaim of Tunis. With Targum Onkeles and commentary by Rashi, ibn Ezra, Kimchi, Targum, etc. Four volumes each with title within architectural arch, initial letters within elaborate woodcut border. First volume with extensive marginalia.

references

Vinograd, Venice 99; Habermann, Bomberg 93; Darlow & Moule 5085; not in Adams

summary

The Second Biblia Rabbinica, the first to present the Massorah. The text of this edition became the standard Massoretic text for all subsequent editions. See D.S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation (1968) no. 166.

ff. 234; 209; 211,(1), 66; 231. Ex-library, lightly stained in places, final leaf of vol. III rebacked torn with loss of few words. Modern calf-backed boards. Folio

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