Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end]

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

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

author

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Christopher Plantin

Place

Antwerp

Publication

1580-82

Description

Woodcut title within ornate arch, three divisional titles, initial word of each book within wood-engraved frame. Outline of the 24-book contents penned in Latin on flyleaf with grammatical notations on verso. Previous owners’ signatures (including 18th-century members of the Cotton and Foster families).

references

Vinograd, Antwerp 26; 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.

ff. 506, (1). Lightly foxed, edges of opening two leaves touch frayed, ff. 235-242 with tear, lacking rear blanks. Later blind-tooled paneled calf, rubbed. Thick 4to.

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