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(BIBLE - Hebrew). Chamisha Chumshei Torah [Pentateuch-end]. Title within architectural arch. Divisional titles. Various manuscript notations and translations by former owners. Rear cover tooled in gilt: “Sheriff Court, Edinburgh.” ff. 369, 124. Fore-edges blackened. Later calf, heavily rubbed, rear cover detached. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 432. Venice: Giustiniani-Adelkind 1551-52 >===Front pastedown inscribed in a 19th-century hand: “This volume was brought to the Sheriff Court at Edinburgh, to remain there, to be used in the proper and efficient putting upon oath of Jewish witnesses.”===Although Jews have been present in Scotland since at least the late 17th century, Edinburgh’s Jewish community dates back to 1817.=== > Newspaper report relating to the exhibition of this volume in Edinburgh, and correspondence between the Custodian of the Valmadonna Trust and the Sheriff Clerk’s Office, Edinburgh.