Binding: Late 18th or early 19th century calf over pasteboards, with gold-tooled borders; sewn onto five supports; with imprint details (in gilt) and shelfmark on the spine; text block edges stained red.Contents note: Incomplete: includes the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel (1-2) and Kings (1-2).Contents note: The book was printed in 1485 but later owners have added marginal annotations and corrections in Hebrew, as well as chapter numbers, in 16th and 17th century hands.Decoration: Decorated (manuscript) incipit of the book of Kings (fol. 108v) and woodcut decorated initial word panels at the beginning of the books of Joshua (fol. 2r) and Judges (fol. 44v).Dimensions: 271 x 208 x 37 mm (size of binding); ca. 264 x 192 mm (size of leaf).Layout: Main biblical text has been printed in square script, the commentary surrounds the main text and is printed in semi-cursive script.Record origin: Material Evidence in Incunabula catalogue https://data.cerl.org/mei/02124371.Incunable edition of the Former Prophets in Hebrew.
Binding: 16th century sprinkled calf over paper boards, with blind-tooling; sewn onto six supports, with raised bands; fragments of early English manuscripts used as binding waste; text block edges sprinkled red; evidence of chaining (staple holes towards the edge of lower fore-edge); blind-tooling and shelfmark on spine; spine title in gilt.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents: The text of the biblical books of Latter Prophets - Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, as well as the Twelve Minor Prophets - with David Kimhi’s commentary.Contents note: With copious marginal manuscript annotations in Latin, Hebrew and English by Thomas Wakefield.Decoration: Title page printed within a decorated woodcut border. With woodcut initial word panels.Dimensions: 322mm (height) x 234mm (width) x 71 mm (depth).Layout: Biblical text in the centre in a larger square script and Kimhi’s commentary in a semi-cursive script surrounding it. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.David Kimhi (1160–1235), also known by his Hebrew acronym as the RaDaK, was a medieval rabbi, biblical commentator, philosopher, and grammarian, who was born in Narbonne in Provence. Kimhi’s commentaries on the biblical books of the Prophets are well-known, and his strength as a grammarian of the Hebrew language can be seen in his writings. He explains words following their grammatical construction and etymological development, while his commentaries contain also rabbinical, philosophical and homiletical sources. Kimhi’s works were popular among Jewish and Christian readers and his commentary on the Latter Prophets that Gershom Soncino published in 1515 in Pesaro is the second edition of this work. The first edition was printed by the Soncino in 1484 as an incunabulum.
Binding: 16th century sprinkled calf over paper boards, with blind-tooling; sewn onto six supports, with raised bands; fragments of early English manuscripts used as binding waste; marbled text block edges; evidence of chaining (staple holes towards edge of lower fore-edge); blind-tooling on spine; spine title in gilt.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents: The text of the biblical books of Former Prophets, that is the books of Joshua, Judges, 1-2 Samuel and 1-2 Kings, with David Kimhi’s commentary (ff. 1a-156b).Contents note: Some marginal manuscript annotations in Latin, Hebrew and English by Thomas Wakefield.Decoration: With woodcut initial word panels.Dimensions: 324mm (height) x 228mm width x 49mm (depth).Layout: Biblical text in the centre in a larger square script and Kimhi’s commentary in a semi-cursive script surrounding it. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.David Kimhi (1160–1235), also known by his Hebrew acronym as the RaDaK, was a medieval rabbi, biblical commentator, philosopher, and grammarian, who was born in Narbonne in Provence. Kimhi’s commentaries on the biblical books of the Prophets are well-known, and his strength as a grammarian of the Hebrew language can be seen in his writings. He explains words following their grammatical construction and etymological development, while his commentaries contain also rabbinical, philosophical and homiletical sources. Kimhi’s works were popular among Jewish and Christian readers and his commentary on the Former Prophets that Gershom Soncino published in 1511 in Pesaro is the second edition of this work. The first edition was printed by the Soncino in 1484 as an incunabulum.