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Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah = Quinque libri legis.
חמישה חומשי תורה.
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Room BS715 1544 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Bible. Old Testament. 1543/4-1546 (Paris, France)
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Old Testament.
- Bible.
- Genre:
- Bibles.
- Physical Description:
- 11 volumes ; 12 cm (16mo)
- Place of Publication:
- Pariś, ha-ʻir ha-gedolah ṿeha-em ba-Tsarefat : Be-mitsṿat Roberṭu[s] Sṭefanu[s] uve-veto, [5]304-[5]306 [1543-1546]
- פריש, העיר הגדולה והאם בצרפת : במצות רוברטו׳ סטפנו׳ ובביתו, ש״ד־ש״ו
- Contents:
- 1. [Pentateuch]
- 2. [Former Prophets]
- 3. [Isaiah]
- 4. [Jeremiah]
- 5. [Ezekiel]
- 6. [Twelve Minor Prophets]
- 7. [Psalms]
- 8. [Proverbs & Job]
- 9. [Five Scrolls]
- 10. [Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah]
- 11. [Chronicles].
- Notes:
- Printer's device on title pages (printer's device of Robert Estienne; a bearded man raises a banner to hang on a fruit tree, text on banner "NOLI ALTUM SAPERE"; Yaari, A. Digle ha-madpisim ha-'Ivriyim / Hebrew Printers' Marks, number 27).
- Factotum devices. Type with vocalization and cantillation.
- Volumes separated by individual title pages. Each title page statement of responsibility with individual monthly date of printing (v.1: Adar 5306 ; v.2: Kislev 5305 ; v.3: Adar 5305 ; v.4: Av 5305 ; v.5: Elul 5305 ; v.6: Kisleṿ 5304 ; v.7: Shevaṭ 5305. v.8: Nisan 5305 ; v.9: Kisleṿ 5304 ; v.10: Siṿan 5305 ; v.11 undated).
- Signatures: a-r⁶ s¹⁰ t-z⁸ 2a-2k⁸ 2l⁴ 2m-2y⁸ 2z⁸ 3A-3N⁸ 3O¹⁰ 3P-3Z⁸ 4A-4D⁸ 4E⁴ 4A-4T⁸ 5A-5Z⁸ 6a-6s⁸ 7A-7P⁸ 8A-8P⁸ 9A-9V⁸ 10A-10N⁸ 10O¹⁰ 11A-11K⁸ 12a-12y⁸ 13A-13Z⁸ 14A-14Q⁸ 14R⁴ 15a-x⁸.
- Local Notes:
- CAJS Rare BS715 1543 copies 1 and 2 acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2014 from the Cassuto family in Portugal. Copy 1 bound in 2 volumes (contains books of Genesis until Kings); early inscriptions of the English College of Lisbon ("Coll. Angl. Ulyssip" "Coll. Ang. Vlys.", and "Collegii Anglorum Ulysp"); armorial blind stamp of the Alfonso Cassuto Biblioteca, bookplate of the Biblioteca Alfonso Cassuto; bound in early leather binding, edges stippled red, with silk ribbon divider. BS715 1543 copy 2 contains Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy; bookplate of the Biblioteca Alfonso Cassuto.
- Libra Katz Rare BS715 1543 contains Ezekiel and the Twelve Minor Prophets (volumes 5-6); bound in blue buckram binding, with floral printed endpapers. Formerly Dropsie (bookplate), Annenberg (stamp).
- Cited in:
- Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, B-1224
- Steinschneider, M. Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 22, 115
- Cowley, A.E. Concise catalogue of the Hebrew printed books in the Bodleian library, 79
- Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri, Paris 18
- OCLC:
- 122923000
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