Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end]. With vocalization points (nikud)

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $1,800

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

author

(BIBLE

printer

Christopher Plantin

Place

Antwerp

Publication

1566

Description

Opening title within foliate architectural-form border. Divisional titles, each within historiated borders. Opening words within ornate decorative panels

references

Vinograd, Antwerp 7; Darlow & Moule 5100; not in Adams

summary

All of Plantin’s Hebrew Bibles "share a characteristic elegance”. Plantin re-arranged the type-composition of this Bible, and issued the same year, quarto, octavo and sextodecimo editions. See Israel Museum Catalogue, Plantin of Antwerp (1981) pp. 99-100. See also D.S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968), no.170

ff.506, pp.(3). Previous owner’s signatures on title. Touch foxed, few minute worm-holes, some light marginal dampstaining. Modern calf, slightly rubbed. 4to

Enquire about this lot