Auction 79 THE VALMADONNA TRUST LIBRARY: FURTHER SELECTIONS FROM THE HISTORIC COLLECTION. * HEBREW PRINTING IN AMERICA. * GRAPHIC & CEREMONIAL ART
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Hebrew). Magna Biblia Rabbinica. With Targums and the major classic rabbinic commentaries. Edited by Johannes Buxtorf.
Complete in two volumes. Divisional titles within architectural woodcut borders, headings within woodcut cartouches. Wide margins. Vol. I bound with: Buxtorf. Tiberias. ff. 114. Basle, 1620. Extensive and detailed scholarly manuscript notations throughout written in Latin and occasionally Hebrew.
ff. (7), 481. * ff. (1), 482-946, 67, (2). Foxed, few stains, leaves frayed in places. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, with Valmadonna-custom gilt-titled spine labels, rubbed and worn. Tall folio. Vinograd, Basle 248; Darlow & Moule 5120.
Basle: Ludwig Koenig 1618-19
<< The sixth, and most scholarly edition of the early Rabbinic Bibles.>>===The publisher employed Jewish as well as Christian scholars, printers and correctors in his endeavor to print the most grammatically correct Bible edition in full accordance with the Mesorah.===<< Provenance:>> Benjamin Niederhofheim - Pastor Sengelmann - The Newman School of Missions, Thabor Jerusalem - University of Cambridge: Emmanuel College, Carus Greek Testament Prize (1912) to L.E. Binns - Valmadonna Trust Library.

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