Binding: Early 18th century Oxford calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooled panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; gilded imprint details and shelfmark on the spine; text block edges sprinkled red.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Kabbalistic commentary on Jewish liturgy. Some text has been underlined and there are several marginal annotations in Hebrew, perhaps written by Edward Pococke, in pencil.Decoration: Title page printed in an hourglass shape.Dimensions: 208mm (height) x 159mm (width) x 42mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in a single column. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.
Complete Torah scroll with two wooden rollers and embroidered velvet mantle.Contents: Pentateuch, i.e. the first Five Books of Moses (Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Leviticus and Deuteronomy).Extent: 54 sheets. 35.5 metres long. Width 0.5 to 0.8 m., average 0.7m.Layout: Layout corresponds to that of a typical Ashkenazi Torah scroll. Text is written, in average, in three columns per parchment sheet. There are 50 lines of text per column.Hand: Ashkenazi square script (STAM).Decoration: With tagin; wooden rollers have been decorated both on the outside and the inside.Binding: Embroidered velvet mantle.
Binding: 19th century blind-tooled half-calf over pasteboards; sewn onto five supports; with gold-tooling and title on the spine.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: On the biblical book of Genesis only. Bibliographical details (in manuscript) in Latin on verso of last front flyleaf.Dimensions: 315mm (height) x 220mm (width) x 18mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in double columns. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.
Hand: Ashkenazic cursive script.Record origin: "Description based on: NeubauerRecord origin: A.Record origin: Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian LibraryRecord origin: OxfordRecord origin: 1886; Beit-AriéRecord origin: MalachiRecord origin: Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library : supplement of addenda and corrigenda to Vol. 1 (A. Neubauer's catalogue)Record origin: 1994."
Binding: 19th century black marbled paper over pasteboards; with imprint details and shelfmark on the spine; text block edges sprinkled red.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents: Jewish liturgical texts; Jewish customs and practices; Haggadah.Dimensions: 226 × 188 × 22 mm.Layout: Text printed in a number of different Hebrew and Yiddish types, mostly in two columns. Block print, bold and vowelized on demonstrative and quoted passages; Yiddish text appears in a different, so-called cursive script.
Binding: 17th century reversed calf over pasteboards; sewn onto three supports; with imprint details and shelfmark on the spine; text block edges stained red.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents: Commentary on the book of Ruth, with the biblical text.Contents note: Includes an introduction by the author and an index by his son Moses. With eulogies in prose and in poetry by Abraham ben Ephraim Sancho and by Samuel Shullam. Some marginal manuscript annotations in Hebrew in a 17th century hand.Decoration: Title page printed within an architectural border.Dimensions: 209mm (height) x 152mm (width) x 23mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in one column (predominantly). Headpieces. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.
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.
Binding: "17th century French red morroco armorial bindingBinding: over wooden boardsBinding: with a version of Colbert’s arms stamped in gold on upper and lower boards; sewn onto six supports; Colbert's monogram ‘JBC’ stamped on the spine; text bock edges sprinkled red and blue; Christ Church shelfmark on the spine."Full catalogue description in SOLOContents: Hebrew sermons on the weekly Torah readings.Contents note: Some marginal handwritten annotations in Hebrew (in 16th or 17th century semi-cursive Sephardi script).Dimensions: 313mm (height) x 220mm (width) x 34mm (depth).Layout: Printed in double columns. Fonts that resemble square and semi-cursive scripts.Origin note: Printing started on 22 Elul 5338, that is 4 September 1578 - end of printing in Sivan 5339, that is June/July 1579.