Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah : [Neviʼim rishonim, Neviʼim aḥaronim, Sefer Ketuvim]
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Type of record: Book
Title: Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah : [Neviʼim rishonim, Neviʼim aḥaronim, Sefer Ketuvim]
Other titles: Bible; Plantin's Bomberg Bible
Classmark: Roth Collection 103
Additional creator(s): Plantin, Christophe (1520-1589) (Other); Bomberg, Daniel (1483-1549) (Other); Roth, Cecil (1899-1970) (Former owner); Browne, John (Former owner); Catcott, A (Former owner); Price, T (Former owner); Pinchard, Margaret Douglas (Former owner); Pinchard, J (Former owner)
Publisher: KriÅ›á¹oforo Planá¹in
Publication city: Anṿerśah
Date(s): 326 [1565-1566]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 506 [i.e. 1,012] pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/336485
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010655169705181
Description
An edition of the Bomberg text, Venice, 1524-1525, often spoken of as "Plantin's Bomberg Bible".
Indexed in: British and Foreign Bible Society Cat., 5099; Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl., 190; Bloch, Venetian printers, p. 14-15.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Roth Collection 103: nineteenth-century MS. note rear pastedown: Printed by & in the house of Christopher Plantin with the type and letter of Beemberg [Daniel Bomberg] & finished in the month of Feb? 5326. Blessed be he whose grace has not forsaken us & has preserved this book without injury. There must be some mistake in the above date and Plantin himself? from 1533 to 1596, therefore could not have been printed in 13[5]22.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Roth Collection 103: full calf, re-backed [later] spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Roth Collection 103. MS. pentrial on front flyleaf: A Catcott. MS. inscription on verso: A Catcott to T. Price. MS. pentrials also on verso: Hebrew letters and alphabet. MS. inscription on title page: The gift of A Catcott to T Price Stockton August 1752. MS. inscription on title page: Given by J? Pinchard to his very dear Daughter Margaret Douglas Pinchard Sept 16th 1826. Sixteenth-century MS. inscription on rear flyleaf: John Browne the ? ? christ ? to be long? is ? to be found. . . .
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