Lot 30
  • 30

Bible. OldTestament. Hebrew.

Estimate
2,500 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • [Magna biblia rabbinica]. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1546-1548
4 volumes in 2, folio (428 x 281mm.), Hebrew text, titles within woodcut architectural borders, headings within woodcut cartouches, later vellum, numerous early manuscript Hebrew and Latin notes in margins (one note at the beginning of volume 2 dated 1556), occasional small tears and repairs in margins, some leaves very lightly spotted, joints split 

Provenance

Bequeathed to the Bishopric of Cornwall, by the Rev. Franke Parker, M.A., Rector of Luffincott, Devon, 1883, bookplate

Literature

Darlow & Moule 5093; Steinschneider 125

Catalogue Note

Bomberg's third Rabbinic Bible, edited by Cornelius Adelkind and a virtual reprint of his second (1524-1525), with changes in the Commentaries and the addition of the Jerusalem Targum II, with separate foliation.