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: 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: 17th century English sprinkled calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooling; double panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; blind-tooling on spine; spine title in gilt.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Some annotations in pencil, perhaps written by Edward Pococke.Decoration: Title page printed within a decorated border.Dimensions: 336mm (height) × 252mm (width) × 39mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in double columns. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Encyclopedia of the Aggada in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. First edition of Moses Pigo’s (d. in Adrianople 1576) scholarly compendium that deals with non-legalistic exegetical texts in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash. These rabbinic texts, known as Aggadah, include folklore, historical anecdotes, moral exhortations, and practical advice that extends from business to medicine.
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.
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.