Eśrim ṿe-arbaʻah : ṿe-hem Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah, Neviʼim Rishonim ṿe-Aḥaronim, ṿe-Khetuvim ; me-duyaḳ be-khol ʻaṿon ṿe-gevurah, ʻim ha-ḳeri ṿe-khetiv, petuḥot u-setumot, ṿe-ḥaserot ṿe-yeterot be-tiḳun Sefer Torah.
עשרים וארבעה : והם חמשה חומשי תורה, נביאים ראשונים ואחרונים וכתובים, מדוייק בכל עון וגבורה, עם הקרי וכתיב, פתוחות וסתומות, וחסרות ויתרות בתיקון ספר תורה.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Annenberg Research Institute, former owner.

Library at the Katz Center Special Collections (University of Pennsylvania)

Noah, M. M. (Mordecai Manuel), 1785-1851, former owner.

Marks, Myer, former owner.

Marks, Rachel, former owner.

Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664, printer.

Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657, editor, publisher.

Standardized Title:

Bible. Old Testament. Hebrew. 1639 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Hebrew.

Bible.

Physical Description:

[1], 112, 166, [1], 94, [4] leaves ; 15 cm (8vo)

Manufacture:

Amstelodami : Sumptibus Ioannis Ianssonii, 1639

Place of Publication:

Ba-Amśṭerdam : ba-Bet Manasheh ben Yiśraʼel, [5]398 [that is, 1639]

באמשטרדם : בבית מנשה בן ישראל, שנת דודי צ'ח' לפרט קטן [שצ"ט]

Notes:

Title page printed inside a woodcut architectural frame (two framing pillars, with wrapped myrtle and fig branches, with a cherub above a cartouche at the lower footing; Tetragrammaton at top).

Based on the edition of 1611-1612 (Basel, Switzerland; see Narkiss Index); the third Hebrew Bible published by Manasseh ben Israel.

Printed in square type (vocalized, with cantillation); Qere and ketiv, and some Masorah printed in the margins. Type-ornaments; factotum devices.

Signatures: [alif]-[yod dalet]⁸ 2[alif]-[khaf alif]⁸ 3[alif]-[yod gimel]⁸.

Five Scrolls follow the text of the Pentateuch in this edition. Following the text is a digest of Haftarot according to Ashkenazic and Sephardic customs ("לוח ההפטרות של כל השנה כפי כל המנהגים").

Local Notes:

CAJS BS1222 1639 imperfect: missing first leaf. Formerly owned by Dropsie (RBR 621), Annenberg (stamp); inscription of diplomat and journalist Mordecai Manuel Noah (1785-1851; "Manuel M. Noah, 1849m this book was printed in 1639 and is consequently 210/213/187/233 years old" (crossed-through entries inside front cover); inscription of Myer Marx, received from his mother Rachel, Philadelphia 1778 ("Myer Marks, his book presented to him by his mother Rachl. Marks - in the year 1778 Phila.").

Cited in:

Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 5127

The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art and Material Culture, 35296

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri, Amsterdam 45

Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 473

Fuks, L. Hebrew typography in the Northern Netherlands, 1585-1815, 167

Constituent Unit:

container of (manifestation): Bible. New Testament. Greek. 1639 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

OCLC:

1579800399

Bound With:

CAJS BS1222 1639 bound with: Bible. New Testament. Greek. 1639 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

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