[ʻEśrim ṿe-arbaʻ sifre ha-ḳodesh] = siue, Biblia Hebraica : ex aliquot manuscriptis et compluribus impressis codicibus, item Masora tam edita, quam manuscripta, aliisque Hebraeorum criticis diligenter recensita : praeter noua lemmata textus S. in Pentateucho, accedunt loca Scripturae parallela, verbalia et realia, breuesque adnotationes, quibus nucleus Graecae LXX. interpretum et OO. versionum exhibetur, difficiles in textu dictiones et phrases explicatur, ac dubia resoluuntur, ut succincti commentarii vicem praestare possint : singulis deiquae columnis selectae variantes lectiones subiiciuntur / cura ac studio Io. Heinr. Michaelis ... et ex parte opera sociorum, ut pluribus in praefatione dicetur.
[עשרים וארבע ספרי הקדש].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rare Judaica Acquisitions Fund.

Michaelis, Johann Heinrich, 1668-1738.

Waisenhaus (Halle an der Saale, Germany), publisher.

Standardized Title:

Bible. Old Testament. Hebrew. 1720.

Language:

Hebrew

Latin

Penn Provenance:

Cohen, Joshua I., 1801-1870 (bookplate) (CJS Rare copy 2)

Rohr, George (donor) (CJS Rare copy 4)

Habicht, C. (autograph) (CJS Rare copy 4)

Habicht, Franz Rollemann (autograph) (CJS Rare copy 4)

Habicht, Karl Hermann (autograph) (CJS Rare copy 4)

Hartmann, Georg Andreas (former owner) (inscription) (CJS Rare copy 4)

Kaiser-Wilhelm-Bibliothek (Poznań, Poland) (stamp) (CJS Rare copy 4)

Gordon, Cyrus H. (Cyrus Herzl) (1908-2001) (inscription) (CJS Special copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 32 pages, 332 unnumbered leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf, 16 pages, 334 unnumbered leaves-[402] leaves, 12 pages, 403 unnumbered leaves-[464] leaves, 4 pages, 465 unnumbered leaves-[848] leaves : illustrations ; 23 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Biblia Hebraica

Fingerprint:

O.EO s.re r.de sud) (3) 1720 (R)

Place of Publication:

Halae Magdeburgicae : Typis & sumtibus Orphanotrophei, MDCCXX [1720]

Language Note:

Text in Hebrew, with prefaces and notes in Latin.

Notes:

Signatures: pi1 a⁸(-a8) b⁸ c⁴ A-2S⁸ 2T⁴ 2V⁴(2V1+)(-2)(⁴) 2X-3E⁸ 3F⁸(3F2+][⁴,2][²) 3G-3N⁸ 2[dagger]² 3O-5P⁸ (leaf pi1=a8).

Leaf 2V1 is unsigned.

Foliation in Hebrew numerals; pagination in Arabic numerals.

Engraved frontispiece illustration and title vignette (device).

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces.

Title in red and black; first four words of title printed in Hebrew characters.

Printed marginalia.

"Prophetae priores" (leaf Z4r), "Prophetae posteriores" (leaf 2V1r) and "Hagiographa" (leaf 4N6r) each has divisional half-title.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rare Judaica Acquisitions Fund.

RBC copy imperfect: p. [1]-[4] (including title page) and p. [7]-[8] at beginning wanting.

CJS Rare copy 2 bound in 2 vols.

CJS Rare copy 2 has bookplate of Dr. Joshua I. Cohen, Baltimore.

CJS Rare copy 4 imperfect: all after leaf 2T4 wanting.

CJS Rare copy 4 has ms. transcription in Roman characters in pencil of Hebrew title of work at head of frontispiece; ms. numeral ("156") in pencil at head of title leaf; early ms. notes in pencil and ink on verso of back free endpaper; early ms. notes on back pastedown; largely illegible ms. inscription ("Ex [...] nomen proprium [...]") on back pastedown.

CJS Rare copy 4 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by George Rohr.

CJS Rare copy 4 formerly owned by several members of the Habicht family. A "C. Habicht" left two autographs ("C. Habichtus stud. theol. sui aevi [...]" and "C. Habicht") on front free endpaper, a dated 19th-century autograph ("C Habicht theol stud. 1830 Marburgensis") on front pastedown, and an ownership inscription ("Ex libris C Habicht") on title leaf. He also wrote a note ("Longe pretiosissimum hunc librum avunculus Lucan dono mihi dedit anno 1823 C Habicht") recording the gift of this volume to him from his maternal uncle Lucan (whose dated 18th-century note -- "Lucan 1798 C alb: 8 H." -- is at head of front free endpaper). Two later 19th-century autographs ("Franz Rollemann Habicht stud. theol. 1856 Marburgensis" and "Carolus Hermannus Habicht. stud. theol. 1858 Marburgensis") appear on front pastedown. The latter is possibly that of Karl Hermann Habicht (d. 1889), pastor of Schwebda until 1871 and of Sachsenhagen from 1871 to 1889. The name Habicht also appears as a monogram in two places on front pastedown and transliterated into Hebrew characters ("Habiḥt") on front pastedown.

CJS Rare copy 4 has 18th-century ms. ownership inscription ("[Naḥlat] Georgij Andr: Hartmanni qui sibi haec Biblia authentica comparavit 1730. pro [...] Cassellis.") of Georg Andreas Hartmann, followed by a damaged early ms. note ("symb: Quo pia fata volu[nt]") in the same hand.

CJS Rare copy 4 has blue ink discard stamp ("Abgegeben von der Kais. Wilh.-Bibl., Posen") of Kaiser-Wilhelm-Bibliothek (Poznań, Poland) on back pastedown; ms. duplicate note in pencil on verso of title leaf.

CJS Rare copy 4 bound in full blind-tooled parchment(?); 5 raised bands on spine; largely illegible ms. title on spine; blind-tooled cover edges; all edges stippled red and blue.

CJS Rare copy 4 has pinpoint wormhole in lower portion of leaves 2O4-2T4, back free endpaper and back pastedown.

CJS Special BS715 1720 vol. 1 only; purchased from The Last Word Bookshop, Philadelphia (2023); formerly owned by Cyrus Herzl Gordon (1908-2001; inscription, title page: "Cyrus H. Gordon, 1925"); three manuscript pages of biography and historical information about editor Johann Heinrich Michaelis, the creation and work which became the 1720 edition (for example, "After a cessation of a[pproximately] 2 years it was resum'd again, & at the request of friends ... it was determin'd now to accompany the narrated text not only with the epitomes of the subject & a selection of various readings..."), written in a cursive script, circa 1775-1800.

Cited in:

Darlow & Moule, 5144

OCLC:

78630868