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(BIBLE). (Former Prophets).  Nevi’im Rishonim. Four volumes.  With Targum Jonathan and commentaries by David Kimchi (Rada’k) and Levi ben Gershom (Ralba’g / Gersonides). FIRST EDITION OF TARGUM JONATHAN AND GERSONIDES.  Texts of Bible and Targum Jonathan with vocalization (nikud) and cantillation (te’amim or 'trop'). Bible verses printed in K’thav Ashurith (Assyrian or square script), Rada’k printed in Rashi (semi-cursive) script and Ralba’g printed in square script that is smaller than that of Tanach. Occasional marginal notes. * Vol. I (Yehoshua / Joshua): ff. 65 (with duplicated leaves). * Vol. II (Shoftim / Judges): ff. 82 (of 86). * Vol. III (Shmuel / Samuel): ff. 230 (of 231). * Vol. IV (Melachim / Kings): ff. 59. In total: ff. 456 (of 620). Many leaves with loss of text, expertly remargined and laid to size, variously stained, some worming restored. Modern uniform morocco. Folio. Vinograd, Leiria 6; Goff 23; Goldstein 99; Offenberg 28; Steinschneider, p. 4, no. 18; Thesaurus B27; Wineman Cat. 62a-b. Leiria, Portugal. Dom Samuel de Ortas and Sons, 1494. One of the last Hebrew books printed before the Portuguese Expulsion of 1497. With the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, neighboring Portugal took its place as the center of Hebrew printing along the Iberian peninsula. Thus the fortified town of Leiria, less than a hundred miles north-east of Lisbon, became a source of Hebrew books. Between the years 1492-96, Samuel de Ortas, a native of Orthez, France, together with his three sons, produced a total of seven Hebrew titles. But de Ortas’ most famous creation would be in Gothic letters. That would be the Latin version of the Spanish Jew Abraham Zacuto’s astronomical table, Almanach Perpetuum, which it is said to have guided Christopher Columbus on his monumental voyage to America.  This Leiria Bible is the Most Voluminous of all Hebrew Incunables.