Magna Biblia Rabbinica. With Targum and the major classical rabbinic commentaries. Revised by Johannes Buxtorf, together with Abraham Braunschweig. With a preface by Jacob ben Hayyim ben Isaac and Moses ben Yom-Tov.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $2,250

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author

(BIBLE, Hebrew).

printer

Ludwig Koenig

Place

Basle

Publication

1618-19

Description

Four volumes bound here in two. Divisional titles within architectural woodcut borders, headings within woodcut cartouches. Scattered marginalia in English, Hebrew and Greek. “Specimen of Hebrew Writing” tipped into front of Vol. II.

references

Vinograd, Basle 248.

summary

The sixth - and most scholarly - edition of the Rabbinic Bibles. (See Darlow & Moule 5120).

Vol. I: ff. 1, (5), 2-228; (1), 234-441, (2 blanks). * Vol. II: 442-705; 707-837, 839-881, 883-946, 7, (1), 66. (in pencil). Foxed and variously stained in places. Contemporary calf, rubbed and worn. Folio.

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