Hebrew and Aramaic). PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH & FIVE SCROLLS). Chamishah Chumshei Torah. Hebrew text with Targum Onkelos,Targum Jonathan, Targum Yerushalmi, and commentary of Rashi

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: $6,500

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author

(BIBLE,

printer

Asher Parenzo for Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1590

Description

Two volumes. Title within textual border with printer’s device of three crowns on recto, with another on verso (Yaari no. 35) and another printer's device on f. 656 (Yaari no. 36). Divisional titles. Opening words within decorative woodcut border. Text of Pentateuch and Targumim in square letters with nikud, Rashi in cursive letters. Extensive Latin marginalia

references

Vinograd, Venice 740; Habermann, di Gara 114; Habermann, Parenzo 25; not in Adams; not in Darlow & Moule

summary

Exceptionally Rare. No copy in the JNUL. The First Pentateuch to Appear with the Targum Jonathan ben Uziel

Vol. I (Genesis-Leviticus): ff. 1-406; Vol. II (Numbers-Deuteronomy; Five Scrolls; Haphtaroth): ff. 407-828. Margins cropped. ff. 212, 341, 344 laid to size. Stained. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. Thick 8vo

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