Bidspirit auction | Chumash – Pentateuch with Latin

Chumash – Pentateuch with Latin Translation, Venice 1551 A Handsome Copy Chumash HEBRAICVS PENTATEV, with Latin translation, printed by Justinian in Venice, 1551 (שי”א). Includes the Five Books of Moses with the Five Megillot. The Latin translation is printed side-by-side with the Hebrew text, and the book is set left-to-right. This edition is a “Jewish edition, ” intended for Christian scholars to study Jewish exegesis. At the end of the Pentateuch appears Ma’alat Moshe, a discourse on the greatness of Moses. On the penultimate leaf is a large printer’s device of Justinian, repeated on every page. CCVIII, [209]–376 [2] leaves. 20 cm. With the final blank leaf. Very good condition; minor staining on a few leaves; original vellum binding with gold-stamped spine, featuring the title in Latin. Referenced in Vinograd, Venice 419