Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Ezrat HaSofer – Amsterdam, 1767-1769 – Five Books of the Torah in One Volume – Original Leather Binding
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Ezrat HaSofer, Tikun Sofrim in Vavei HaAmudim format, Chumash with haftarot and with Or Torah by R. Menachem di Lonzano, for study and for scribing a Torah scroll. Amsterdam: Yisrael Mondovi for Gerard Johann Janson, 1767-[1769]. Five parts in one volume.
Title page decorated with engraving at beginning of volume, dated 1769. Divisional title pages for each book of the Torah, dated 1768. Half-title at the beginning of each book does not appear in the present copy (see Bibliography of the Hebrew Book).
At beginning of the Book of Bereshit, Meir Nativ – on holy names in Torah, by R. Yehudah Pisa. At end of the Book of Devarim, haftarah for Shabbat Eichah with Spanish verse-by-verse translation; Luchot HaIbur (divisional title page) – charts for determining dates of festivals (in Hebrew and Portuguese).
Bereshit: [11]; [1], 64; 26 leaves. Shemot: [1], 65-119; [2], 28 leaves. Vayikra: [2], 120-159; [2], 24 leaves. Bamidbar: [2], 160-215; [2], 16 leaves. Devarim: [1], 216-264; [265]-281 leaves. Luchot HaIbur: [9] leaves. 19 cm. High-quality paper. Good condition. Stains. Some marginal tears to several leaves. Original leather binding, with original color endpaper and gilt decorations.
At end of book, [1] leaf, bibliographically undocumented, in Hebrew and Spanish.
Bible and Psalms
Bible and Psalms