Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end]. With vocalization points

Estimate: $1,500–$2,500
Hammer price: $1,500

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

author

(BIBLE

printer

Christopher Plantin

Place

Antwerp

Publication

1566

Description

Opening title within woodcut foliate architectural-form border-piece. Divisional titles, each within historiated borders. Opening words within decorative borders. Numerous marginalia in Spanish, Latin and English. On title, signature of former owner "J. Jessop D[octor] D[ivinity." On penultimate leaf, the same owner writes in English, "On this day the 13th of June 1817, finished the reading of this volume the 5th time over…" and adds in Hebrew, "Thus far the Lord helped me.”

references

Vinograd, Antwerp 7; Darlow & Moule 5099; not in Adams

summary

All of Plantin’s Hebrew Bibles "share a characteristic elegance”. Plantin re-arranged the type-composition of this Bible, and issued the same year, quarto, octavo and sextodecimo editions. See Israel Museum Catalogue, Plantin of Antwerp (1981) pp. 99-100. See also D.S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968), no.170

ff. 506, pp.( 3). Dampstained, upper margin trimmed, few edges worn. Later vellum. 4to

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