(Hebrew). Magna Biblia Rabbinica. With Targum and the major classical rabbinic commentaries. Prepared by J. Buxtorf, together with Abraham Braunschweig. With a preface by Jacob ben Hayyim ben Isaac and Moses ben Yom-Tov.

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(BIBLE).

printer

Ludwig Koenig

Place

Basle

Publication

1618-19

Description

Three volumes. Divisional titles within architectural woodcut borders, headings within woodcut cartouches. Initial word of each Book within engraved surround, surrounded in turn by Biblical verses. Previous owner’s inscriptions.

references

Vinograd, Basle 248.

summary

The sixth - and most scholarly - edition of the Rabbinic Bibles. (See Darlow & Moule 5120). The publisher employed a team of scholars, printers and correctors in his endeavor to issue the most grammatically correct Bible edition in full accordance with the Mesorah.

Browned, foxed and stained in places, some leaves frayed, paper repairs with occasional loss of text. Recent boards. Large folio.

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