Hebrew). Magna Biblia Rabbinica. With Targums and the major classic rabbinic commentaries. Edited by Johannes Buxtorf.

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $6,000

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author

(BIBLE

printer

Ludwig Koenig

Place

Basle

Publication

1618-19

Description

Complete in two volumes. Divisional titles within architectural woodcut borders, headings within woodcut cartouches. Wide margins. Vol. I bound with: Buxtorf. Tiberias. ff. 114. Basle, 1620. Extensive and detailed scholarly manuscript notations throughout written in Latin and occasionally Hebrew.

references

Vinograd, Basle 248; Darlow & Moule 5120.

summary

The sixth, and most scholarly edition of the early Rabbinic Bibles. The publisher employed Jewish as well as Christian scholars, printers and correctors in his endeavor to print the most grammatically correct Bible edition in full accordance with the Mesorah. Provenance: Benjamin Niederhofheim - Pastor Sengelmann - The Newman School of Missions, Thabor Jerusalem - University of Cambridge: Emmanuel College, Carus Greek Testament Prize (1912) to L.E. Binns - Valmadonna Trust Library.

ff. (7), 481. * ff. (1), 482-946, 67, (2). Foxed, few stains, leaves frayed in places. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, with Valmadonna-custom gilt-titled spine labels, rubbed and worn. Tall folio.

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