Auction 14 · Lot 71

Hebrew and Aramaic. PENTATEUCH). Chamishah Chumshei Torah. With Targum Onkelos on each facing page

Estimate: $6,000–$7,000
Hammer price: $6,000

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

author

(BIBLE,

printer

Tobias Foa

Place

Sabbioneta

Publication

1558

Description

With vocalization points (nikud). Printer's device on verso of title page (Yaari no. 21). Two headings within cartouches. The Salman Schocken Copy

references

Vinograd, Sabbionetta 41; Darlow & Moule 2407; Deinard, Atikoth Yehudah p.39; Adams B-1260

summary

Important edition. Of pocket size, with a carefully revised Targum, set with vocalization (Nikud). A critical edition of this Targum was prepared by Abraham Berliner in 1884 (see D&M 2425). According to Amram “No Hebrew press of the (sixteenth) century was more fortunate in the number and quality of its workmen” (p. 291). Foa published in the same year differing issues of this Bible with variations relating to the presence or otherwise of Haphtaroth, Megiloth, Targum and Nikud. A vellum copy of Foa’s Bible was sold by Kestenbaum & Company, 26th June 2001, Lot 62 and Sotheby’s London, Property of the Earl of Rosebery and Midlothian, 5th December, 1994, lot 64

ff. (4), 351, 56. With four introductory leaves. Some marginalia, library stamps. Title page browned and rehinged, lightly stained in places. Recent tan mottled-calf boards,spine gilt, gently rubbed. 12mo.

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