Hebrew. PENTATEUCH ) Chamishah Chumashei Torah. With Targum Onkelos and commentaries of Rash”i, Ramba”n (entitled Nachmeini in this edition) and ibn Ezra

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Nahmias Brothers

Constantinople

1522

Yaari, Const. 95; Mehlman 41; Steinschneider 41 "summae raritatis"

EXTREMELY RARE. The copies in JNUL, JTSLA and the Mehlman copy are all incomplete. On the text of Rash”i in this edition, see I. Sonne, "Le-Bikoreth Ha-Text Shel Peirush Rashi Al Ha-Torah," in HUCA, Vol. XV, p. 46. Sonne states that this edition follows the Sephardic (Spanish-Portuguese) redaction of Rashi's commentary which contains additional midrashic and explanatory material as compared to the German-French and Italian redactions. The printers, the Nahmias Brothers, were exiles from Spain who established their press in 1505. Theirs was the first printing-press beyond Europe’s borders The Ibn Nahmias's (of Constantinople) first printing was the Tur of 1493. There was a whole debate for a while, where Steinschneider and de Rossi said it was 1505, but it has since been conclusively proven (by M. Marx and Offenberg - see his article in Choice of Corals) that the first Constantinople edition was completed in 1493.