Torah-Nevi'im-Kethuvim (Tana”ch)

(BIBLE)

Gershon ben Moses Soncino

Brescia

1494

Includes but a single leaf of the Pentateuch (section “Vayechi”), followed by Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Minor Prophets, Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Daniel, Ezra, and Chronicles. Book of Psalms printed in two columns

Vinograd, Brescia 5; Goff 10; Goldstein 64; Offenberg 12; Steinschneider, p. 3, no. 17; Thesaurus A81; Wineman Cat. 48. HUC lacks three leaves; Cambridge copy incomplete; JNUL with 146 leaves only

A copy of this Soncino Bible was used by the Protestant theologian Martin Luther in his translation of the Bible. Luther’s copy is presently in the (former) Royal Library of Berlin. See Amram, p. 81; A.K. Offenberg, Hebrew Incunabula in Public Collections (1990), p. 17, no. 12. According to Steinschneider, the Pentateuch portion of this edition was printed the previous year of 1493