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Auction 44 · Lot 61

Hebrew.) Pentateuch with Targum. Five Megilloth and Haphtaroth appended

Estimate
$4,000–$6,000
Hammer price
$7,000

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author

(BIBLE

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1527

Description

Title within architectural columns. Hebrew text of Pentateuch and Aramaic Targum Onkelos printed face `a face, both provided with nikud. Scattered marginalia

references

Vinograd, Venice 118; Habernann, Bomberg 99

summary

This slight octavo is an unusually scarce Bomberg edition
ff. (452 of 456). Wanting in sig. 7, ff. 4,5,6,7 (=Genesis Chap. 42:6-Chap. 43:29). Waterstains. Marginal hole in final leaf. Some old underscoring. Contemporary vellum, somewhat distressed. Thick 8vo
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