Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Chumash Mikra'ot Gedolot, Venice, 1548 - Many Handwritten Glosses from Time of Printing

Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,625
Including buyer's premium
The Five Books of the Torah and the five Megillot, with commentaries of Rashi, Ramban and the Mahari Abuhav. [Venice, 1548. Printed by Daniel Bomberg]. Colophon at the end of Devarim (page 343/2): "The work was completed at the end of Adar 1548 by… Cornelio Adil Kind from the HaLevi family". Abbreviated illustrated title page for the "Haftarot for the entire year according to the Sephardi and Ashkenazi tradition".
On the Chumash leaves are hundreds of short and long marginalia in cursive Italian script, from the time of printing, with variations, mostly of the Ramban commentary [some of these corrections do not appear in the proofread editions of the Ramban commentary]. The Mizrachi commentary on the Torah is mentioned in one gloss.
Lacking and damaged copy. 150-343; 345-381; [2], 2-16 leaves (originally; 343; [1 blank leaf], 345-381; [2], 2-26 leaves). 33.5 cm. High quality paper. Fair condition. Worn and detached leaves. Worming and stains. Unbound.
This edition includes a vowelized Targum Onkelos, with trope symbols (cantillation marks).
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