Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ; [Neviʼim] [Ketuvim]....

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589, printer.

פלנטין, כריסטוף.

Standardized Title:

Bible. Old Testament. Hebrew. 1566 (Antwerp, Belgium)

תנ"ך. שכ"ו (אנטורף, בלגיה)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Hebrew.

Bible.

Penn Provenance:

Annenberg Research Institute (stamp) (CJS Rare copy)

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate) (CJS Rare copy)

Leeser Library Hebrew Education Society (stamp) (CJS Rare copy)

Leeser, Isaac (bookplate) (CJS Rare copy)

Myers, Solomon (former owner) (inscription) (CJS Rare copy)

Adolphus, Phillip (former owner) (inscription) (CJS Rare copy)

Jonas, Solomon (inscriptions) (CJS Rare copy)

Jonas, Moses (inscriptions) (CJS Rare copy)

Physical Description:

4 volumes ; 12 cm (16mo)

Manufacture:

[Antwerp] : Nidpas ʻim rav ha-ʻiyun ʻal yede Krisṭoforo Planṭin be-mitsṿat ha-śar Bombirgi y.ts.v., bi-shenat [5]326 le-f.ḳ. poh ha-ʻir ha-mehulalah Anṿerśah [that is, 1565]

[אנוירשה] : נדפס עם רב העיון על ידי כריסטופורו פלנטין במצות השר בומבירגי י"צו' בשנת שכ"ו לפ"ק פה העיר המהוללה אנוירשה

Other Title:

title page, volume 4: Sefer Ketuvim : Tehilim, Mishle, Iyov, Daniyel, ʻEzra, Divre ha-yamim...

title page, volume 4: ספר כתובים : תהלים, משלי, איוב, דניאל, עזרא, דברי הימים...

Notes:

Title-pages with architechtural borders.

Imprint from title page; colophon date, Ṭevet [5]326, is November-December 1565.

Pagination: V.1: 512, 64 leaves; V.2: 480 leaves ; V.3: 514 leaves.

Each volume with individual title pages only.

Woodcut factotum head-pieces.

Type with printed vocalization and cantillation marks.

Catchwords; printed marginalia; Masora parva (in cursive type, following each book).

Printed with the Bomberg Press cast matrices (Daniel von Bomberghen, also known as Daniel Bomberg, through his nephew and Plantin partner Cornelius II van Bomberghen).

Signatures: 1: 1-64⁸ 1-8⁸ ; 2: 1-28⁸ ; 3: 1-60⁸ ; 4: 1-30⁸ 31⁴ 32-65⁸ ; signatures in Roman and Arabic numerals.

Local Notes:

CJS Rare copy bound with manuscript pages of the prayers preceding and following Psalms recitation (first leaf, caption: תפלה נאה לאומרה קודם תהלים ואשרי חלקו...Second leaf, caption: תפילה נאה לאומרה אחר תהלים אחר כל ספר... (these prayers were printed contemporary to the writing in Sidur Sha'ar ha-shamayim (Amsterdam: Aaron de Solomon Antones, 1717, leaves [35]7-8).

CJS Rare copy volume 4 only.

CJS Rare copy formerly owned by The Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, Collection of Isaac Leeser (bookplate), RBR 2577 (pencil inscription, second front free-end verso); Annenberg Research Institute Library (stamp).

CJS Rare copy formerly owned by the Leeser Library Hebrew Education Society (stamp, title page verso).

CJS Rare copy formerly owned by Solomon M. Myers (of Philadelphia; -1811; autograph, title page: "Solomon Myers"); gifted to him by Phillip Adolphus (also known in Judeo-German as Feyes ben Efraim Rettedam, meaning of Rotterdam; Hebrew and English inscription on final blank: "נדבה הבחר פייס בן כה"ר אפרים ריטעדם | להבחור חשוב שלמה בן כ"ה פ"י מאיר | כ"ה פ"י שלמה ז"ל | The gift of Mr. Phillip Adolphus | October 21st 1775 | Solomon M. Myers" ; Myers' autograph with flourishes and Hebrew letters inside central pen loop.

CJS Rare copy formerly owned by Moses Jonas, Rotterdam, 1758 and 1773, and his son Solomon Jonas (inscriptions following the Book of Psalms; first in Dutch and Latin: "Dies Boek door deze de Heer Mooses Jonas Rotterdam | Anno MILLESIMO SEPTINGENTESIMO SEPTUAGESIMO TERTIO"; second in Hebrew: זה התלים שייך להאלוף הגאון כש"ת כ"ה משה בן פי"מ כהר"ר יונתן זצ"ל | בשנת א"ז יש"ר מש"ה | זלמן בן פי"מ כהרר משה סג"ל יצו").

CJS Rare copy bound in blue buckram; floral patterned print endpapers; gilt-stamped text on spine: "ספר כתובים | E | אנוירשה שכו".

Cited in:

Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 5099

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, B1229

Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 192

The Plantin Press Online, cp013004

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Antwerp 9

Voet, L. Plantin Press, 1555-1589, 651

OCLC:

1434120345