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(BIBLE). (Hebrew, Pentateuch) Chamishah Chumashei Torah. With Targum Onkelos and commentaries of Rashi, Ramban and ibn Ezra. * And: Haphtaroth. With commentary by Radak. Commences with (not necessarily consecutively) * Sepher Vayikra: ff. 55. * Sepher Bamidbar: ff. 57. * Sepher Devarim: ff. 48. * Haphtaroth: ff. 32. Total ff. 192 (of 354). Stained and worn in places, many leaves toward end variously bedraggled occasionally with loss of text. Unbound. Folio. Sold not subject to return. Yaari, Const. 95; Mehlman 41; Steinschneider 41 ”summae raritatis.” Constantinople, Nahmias Brothers, 1522. The printers, the Nahmias Brothers, were exiles from Spain who established their press in 1505. Theirs was the first printing-press beyond Europe’s borders. On the text of Rashi in this edition, see I. Sonne, LeBikoreth HaText shel Peirush Rashi al HaTorah, in HUCA, Vol. XV, p. 46. Sonne states that this edition follows the Sephardic (Spanish-Portuguese) redaction of Rashi's commentary which contains additional midrashic and explanatory material as opposed to the German-French and Italian redactions. Rare. The copies in both NLI and JTS are both incomplete. An incomplete copy of this Bible was sold by Kestenbaum (the Valmadonna “B” copy) in Kestenbaum Sale 39, Lot 53.