(Bible. Hebrew. Exodus & Leviticus). Torath Hashem Temimah-Tikun Sopherim ha-Yeshorim. Prepared by Isaac Przemyslow of Prague and republished by his son, Hirsch

(ANGLO JUDAICA).

Leib Sussmans

Amsterdam

1767

Vols. II and III only (of five). Each volume with attractive engraved additional title by Aaron Santcroos. Both volumes stamped, inscribed and signed repeatedly (see below). Contemporary mahogany calf with elaborate gilt-tooling, upper covers gilt-tooled with owner’s name and chronographic date in Hebrew characters, gilt-tooled on spine

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1940; Darlow & Moule 5158

a chumash passed down as heirloom from chief rabbi to chief rabbi, members of the schiff and adler families. Provenance: 1. David Tevele Schiff (d.1792), Chief Rabbi of the Great Synagogue, London, from 1765 until his death. Upper covers with his name gilt-tooled in Hebrew characters, “Harav ha-Gaon ha-Gadol Mo”h Tevele Ka”tz Schiff Ab”d de-K”K London” and dated “Shalom aleinu” [1782]. (From the elaborate praise and titles given him, the Rabbi presumably received this Bible as a gift). 2. His son, Moses Schiff, who presented the volumes as Bar Mitzvah gift to: 3. His cousin, Baer ben Mordechai Adler, in 1799. This is perhaps when the original five volumes became separated. Adler writes of his receipt of the books in the Book of Exodus, which might suggest that he was not in possession of the earlier volume. Adler became Chief Rabbi of Hanover and was succeeded by his son, Nathan Marcus in 1830. 4. Nathan Marcus Adler, was in turn elected Chief Rabbi of the British Empire in 1844. -- Thus, these two volumes came to return to England in the possession of its new Chief Rabbi. See C. Duschinsky, The Rabbinate of the Great Synagogue (1921); JE, Vol. XI, p. 97 (Schiff pedigree); and EJ, Vol. II, col. 270 (Adler pedigree)