Hebrew. LATTER PROPHETS AND WRITINGS). Arba’ah Ve’esrim. Edited by Felix Pratensis with extensive commentaries

(BIBLE.

Daniel Bomberg

Venice

1517

Two Volumes (of four, lacking Pentateuch and Early Prophets). Divisional titles. Large woodcut head-pieces, initial letters of each Book within ornamental headings. Very extensive marginal annotations in Hebrew mostly in an early Aschkenazic hand

Vinograd, Venice 6; Mehlman 25; Haberman, Bomberg 8; Adams B-1216; Darlow & Moule 5083

Editio Princeps of the Great Rabbinic Bible. “The importance of this edition can hardly be overrated.” per, C. D. Ginsburg, see D. S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation (1968) no. 165 (illustrated). Some of the marginal manuscript notes in this copy contain Rashi's commentary not included in the 1517published edition. Often these notes contain slight variances to the standard text, as the learned scholar was no doubt utilizing an early Rashi manuscript. Occasionally, the notes add anti-Christological passages. The later notes contain lengthy grammatical and philological comments It should be noted that the Mehlman copy of Kethuvim is similarly bound as the present copy - without the Megiloths and supplements