(Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [entire 24 Books].

Estimate: $700–$1,000
Hammer price: $1,100

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

author

(BIBLE).

printer

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). Contemporary sheep with indistinct blind-stamped arms with garter flanked by initials “G C,” rebacked with covers reattached upside down, binding heavily worn, joints cracked, cords intact; opening leaves conspicuously dampstained, scattered later marginalia, ink blot in outer margin of last several leaves, final leaf of Luach HaHaftarot creased and frayed. 17th- and 18th-century owners' inscriptions on front endpaper. Thick 4to.

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