Chamisha Chumshei Torah[-end]

Estimate: $8,000–$10,000
Hammer price: $14,000

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

author

(BIBLE Hebrew).

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1528 & 1533

Description

With Nikud and cantillation points. Four parts in one volume. Divisional titles. Opening word of each Book within decorative woodcut border, each hand-colored in older yellow. Rubricated throughout. Opening leaf with 18th-century record of births pertaining to the Fano Family. Gauffred edges.

references

Vinograd, Venice 100 &149; Haberman, Bomberg 95 & 149; Darlow & Moule 5086; Adams B-1219.

summary

AN ATTRACTIVE WIDE-MARGINED COPY OF A RARE BOMBERG EDITION. The year of publication on the title-page is 1533, whilst the colophon bears the year 1528. The consensus bibliographers have reached is that completion of the 1533 Bible past Part II was aborted and instead Parts III-IV remaining from the 1525-8 edition were utilized to complete the edition entire.

ff. 528, (1). Some dampstaining, small loss to corners of opening two leaves with neat marginal repairs. Recent boards, rubbed. Lg. 4to.

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