נביאים ראשונים

Title:

נביאים ראשונים

Contributor:

Commentators: Kimhi, David, approximately 1160-approximately 1235
Printer: Soncino, Gershom, -1534

Date:

1511

Description:

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.

Language:

Aramaic
English
Hebrew
Latin

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Geographic region:

Pesaro, Italy

Provenance:

Former owner: Best, John, 1569-1637Former owner: Wakefield, Thomas, -1575Thomas Wakefield (d. 1575). Inscription on verso of leaf 156, written upside own: ‘Thomas Wakefield’. Best, John, 1569-1637. Inscription on verso of last leaf (blank): "Ex dono Doctoris Best Canonici Ecclesiae Hereford Canonici".

Medium:

Paper

Extent:

pp. 156.

Rights:

Photo: © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Terms of use: http://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/terms.html

Identifier:

Steinschneider, nos. 1039, 5302,5, 7455; Vinograd, Pesaro no. 29; Hill, 201-202 (C.49.d.5.); Sclar, David. A catalogue of Books Printed on Parchment Housed in the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, no. 16.
Alma Identifier: 990204391480107026
Christ Church MC.4.9

Is part of:

Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books

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