Binding: 18th century English sprinkled calf over pasteboards, with blind-tooled borders; sewn onto six supports; evidence of chaining (staple holes towards the edge of lower board); with imprint details and shelfmark on the spine; text block edges sprinkled red.Contents note: Incomplete: includes only the books of Job, Canticles and Ecclesiastes.Contents note: The book was printed in 1487 but later owners have added marginal annotations and corrections in Hebrew, in 16th and 17th century hands (probably in Italy).Decoration: Coloured and decorated woodcut initial word panels at the beginning of books of Job (folio 2r) and Song of Songs (folio 49v).Dimensions: 275 x 207 x 20 mm (size of binding). ca. 270 x 196 mm (size of leaf).Layout: Main biblical text has been printed in square script and is vocalised; the commentaries surround the main text and are printed in semi-cursive script.Record origin: Material Evidence in Incunabula catalogue https://data.cerl.org/mei/02123705.Incunable edition of the Hagiographa (Writings of the Hebrew Bible) in Hebrew.
Binding: 17th century English sprinkled calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooling; double panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; marbled text block edges; rebacked; blind-tooling on spine; spine title in gilt.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Includes masekhet (tractate) Berakhot and mishnah from seder Zeraʿim. With occasional manuscript additions: some notes in Hebrew, including Hebrew alphabet practice exercises. Annotations in pencil were perhaps written by Edward Pococke.Decoration: Simple floral designs.Dimensions: 336mm (height) x 252mm (width) x 46mm (depth).Layout: The layout of this edition mirrors that of the first edition of the Talmud printed by Daniel Bomberg between 1519/1520-1523 in Venice. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Babylonian Talmud, printed in Constantinople between 1583-1593 by brothers Solomon and Isaac Jabez. Descendants of Spanish origin scholars, the 16th century family of printers first established a Hebrew press in Salonika in 1546 and from 1559 onwards they were also active in Constantinople. Since the burning and banning of the Talmud in Italy, starting in 1553, there was a high demand for a new printed edition of the Talmud. The Jabez brothers realised how important it was to embark on such a project and started to print the Talmud, tractate by tractate, following the layout of the first edition by Bomberg.
Binding: 17th century English sprinkled calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooling; double panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; marbled text block edges; blind-tooling on spine; spine title in gilt.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Includes tractates Sanhedrin and Megillah. Some marginal notes in Hebrew.Decoration: Simple floral designs.Dimensions: 336mm (height) x 252mm (width) x 44mm (depth).Layout: The layout of this edition mirrors that of the first edition of the Talmud printed by Daniel Bomberg between 1519/1520-1523 in Venice. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Babylonian Talmud, printed in Constantinople between 1583-1593 by brothers Solomon and Isaac Jabez. Descendants of Spanish origin scholars, the 16th century family of printers first established a Hebrew press in Salonika in 1546 and from 1559 onwards they were also active in Constantinople. Since the burning and banning of the Talmud in Italy, starting in 1553, there was a high demand for a new printed edition of the Talmud. The Jabez brothers realised how important it was to embark on such a project and started to print the Talmud, tractate by tractate, following the layout of the first edition by Bomberg.
Binding: 17th century English sprinkled calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooling; double panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; marbled text block edges; blind-tooling on spine; spine title in gilt.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Includes tractates Yoma and Taʿanit. Some marginal notes in Hebrew.Decoration: Simple floral designs.Dimensions: 336mm (height) x 252mm (width) x 38mm (depth).Layout: The layout of this edition mirrors that of the first edition of the Talmud printed by Daniel Bomberg between 1519/1520-1523 in Venice. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Babylonian Talmud, printed in Constantinople between 1583-1593 by brothers Solomon and Isaac Jabez. Descendants of Spanish origin scholars, the 16th century family of printers first established a Hebrew press in Salonika in 1546 and from 1559 onwards they were also active in Constantinople. Since the burning and banning of the Talmud in Italy, starting in 1553, there was a high demand for a new printed edition of the Talmud. The Jabez brothers realised how important it was to embark on such a project and started to print the Talmud, tractate by tractate, following the layout of the first edition by Bomberg.
Binding: 17th century English sprinkled calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooling; double panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; marbled text block edges; blind-tooling on spine; spine title in gilt.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Includes tractates ʿEruvin and Megillah. Some marginal notes in Hebrew.Decoration: Simple floral designs.Dimensions: 336mm (height) x 252mm (width) x 42mm (depth).Layout: The layout of this edition mirrors that of the first edition of the Talmud printed by Daniel Bomberg between 1519/1520-1523 in Venice. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Babylonian Talmud, printed in Constantinople between 1583-1593 by brothers Solomon and Isaac Jabez. Descendants of Spanish origin scholars, the 16th century family of printers first established a Hebrew press in Salonika in 1546 and from 1559 onwards they were also active in Constantinople. Since the burning and banning of the Talmud in Italy, starting in 1553, there was a high demand for a new printed edition of the Talmud. The Jabez brothers realised how important it was to embark on such a project and started to print the Talmud, tractate by tractate, following the layout of the first edition by Bomberg.
Binding: 17th century English sprinkled calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooling; double panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; marbled text block edges; blind-tooling on spine; spine title in gilt.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Includes tractate Shabbat. With copious notes in Hebrew, some of them Hebrew alphabet practice exercises.Decoration: Simple floral designs.Dimensions: 336mm (height) × 252mm (width) × 45mm (depth).Layout: The layout of this edition mirrors that of the first edition of the Talmud printed by Daniel Bomberg between 1519/1520-1523 in Venice. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Babylonian Talmud, printed in Constantinople between 1583-1593 by brothers Solomon and Isaac Jabez. Descendants of Spanish origin scholars, the 16th century family of printers first established a Hebrew press in Salonika in 1546 and from 1559 onwards they were also active in Constantinople. Since the burning and banning of the Talmud in Italy, starting in 1553, there was a high demand for a new printed edition of the Talmud. The Jabez brothers realised how important it was to embark on such a project and started to print the Talmud, tractate by tractate, following the layout of the first edition by Bomberg.