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

Estimate: $1,500–$2,500
Hammer price: $5,000

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author

(BIBLE

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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. Broad-margined copy. Numerous Greek and Latin marginalia interspersed with Hebrew. On front fly, previous owners dating back to "Worms, 1580"

references

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

summary

A majestic binding. All of Plantin’s Hebrew Bibles "share a characteristic elegance”. 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). Wanting the blank leaf between Pentateuch and Five Megilloth. Light stains. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled vellum with elegant spiral hasps, spine in compartments, rubbed, corner bosses lacking. 4to

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