Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end]*bound together with Greek New Testament (Geneva: Petrum de la Rouiere, 1619). pp. (8), 16, 453.

(BIBLE,

Christopher Plantin

Antwerp

1566

First Hebrew Bible printed by Plantin.Title within ornate arch, 3 divisional titles, initial word of each Book within frame

Adams B-1229; Mehlman 28; cf. Darlow & Moule 5099; C. Sorgeloos, Labore et Constantia (1990) no.134 (includes facsimile of title). According to Sorgeloos: “Copies were sold in the Frankfurt Fair, in London and in the Jewish colonies of Northern Africa. Not in MPM; no copy in Belgium; only 3 copies in Britain and one in Paris.”

Plantin rearranged the type-composition of this Bible, and issued the same year, quarto and sextodecimo editions. See Israel Museum Catalogue, Plantin of Antwerp (1981) pp. 99-100.