Binding: Late 16th or early 17th century calf over wooden boards, with blind-tooled panels and rolls and centrepiece ornaments on both boards; sewn onto four supports, with raised bands; remains of metal clasps; text block edges sprinkled red.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Includes vocalised text of Five Scrolls. Some marginal manuscript annotations in Hebrew in Sephardi cursive script.Decoration: Title page decorated with simple floral motifs.Dimensions: 200mm (height) x 158mm (width) x 48mm (depth).Layout: Biblical text in a larger square script and vocalised; Almosnino’s commentary that surrounds it is in a semi-cursive script. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Moses Almosnino was an eminent Jewish rabbi in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century (born in Salonica in ca. 1515 and died in Constantinople in ca. 1580). He was known for his erudition not only in the rabbinic sources but also for his interest in science, i.e. natural physics and astronomy. His ‘Yede Mosheh’ (Hands of Moses) that was printed in Salonica, around 1571-1572 is the first edition of his lengthy commentary on the biblical Five scrolls (i.e. the books of Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther).