Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Five Books of the Torah – With Latin Translation – Venice, 1551
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Five Books of the Torah and Five Megillot, with Latin translation and commentary, "Hebraicus Pentateuchus Latinus". Venice: Iustinianea (Marco Antonio Giustiniani), 1551.
Printed from left to right. Translation and original on facing columns. Enlarged printer's device on separate leaf at end of book. Woodcut frames at beginnings of each book of the Torah and Shir HaShirim. At end of Devarim, Hebrew section Maalat Moshe – on the virtue of Moses (not mentioned in Bibliography of the Hebrew Book).
Old ownership inscriptions (In Italian script) to title page and beginning of Shir HaShirim: "Menachem son of R. David Franchetta Harari, 1672" (possibly a family member of R. Moshe Franchetta-Harari, teacher of R. Yedidiah Shlomo Refael Norzi, author of Minchat Shai). Another inscription (in Ashkenazic script) on title page.
CCVIII leaves, 209-376 leaves, [1] blank leaf, [1] leaf. Misfoliation and misordering of some leaves. 21 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, creases and light wear. Marginal open tears to some leaves, not affecting text. Censorship expurgation to leaf 303. Early signatures and inscriptions (Hebrew and Latin). Stamps. Bookplate. Early parchment binding, with some wear and defects.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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