Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end]

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $900

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

author

(BIBLE

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Christopher Plantin

Place

Antwerp

Publication

1580-1582

Description

Title within ornate arch, three divisional titles, initial word of each Book within frame

references

Vinograd, Antwerp 26; Adams B-1234; Darlow & Moule 5104

summary

All of Plantin’s Hebrew Bibles "share a characteristic elegance.” See D.S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968), no.170. See also Israel Museum Catalogue, Plantin of Antwerp (1981) pp. 99-100. Although every fifth verse is numbered along the inside margin - (full verse-enumeration does not occur until Athias’s edition of 1661) - an early owner has neatly penned the full enumeration through text until p.40

pp. 506, (3). Some staining, Latin marginalia with Hebrew written in red ink in a neat early hand, verse enumeration in black ink in a different hand. Later calf, rubbed, spine detatched. 4to

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