farfel_n09_033_587

587

Phil Barber
Boston, Mass.
Oct. '03
$8.95

Bible. Old Testament. Hebrew.
Basel: Ludwig Koenig, 1618-9 f^0
Ref: D. + M. 5120, Prijs 219. Delavaeu + Hillard #433/2 vol. 41 cm
Copy: Harvard, Univ. of CA. Berkeley, Princeton, Univ. of
Illinois, Urbana. NY Public Lib., Stanford.

See
#372
#559

Text divided into 4 parts, but c continuous foliation.
I. Pentateuch (6) BII. Fol. 1-228. (10 5/8 x 15 5/8 inches)
II. Enaste Propheten. Fol. (233)-441. (26.4 x 39.7 cm)
III. Spatere Propheter. Fol. 442-(706).
IV. Hagiographen. Fol. 707-946. Square + Rabbinic letter.
followed by, 8 B11. 67 --> Jerusalum Tangum B11. 36 --> Massora Magna, etc. B11. --> Heftarot
The 6th Rabbinic Bible, c Targums + commentaries.
Revised + corrected by Johannes Baxtorf, the elder.
(1564-1629) - 424x271mm. in 2 columns
1st Rabbinic Bible. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1516-17.
2nd " " " " " , 1524-5.
(Rabbinic Bibles or Mikna' ot Gedolot.)

Deuteronomy [inserted] Latin characters [end inserted] devarim
13:13 --> 14:27
Cautions against Seduction to Idolatry.
Disfigurement for the Dead forbidden.
Clean and unclean animals.
Tithas prescribed.
(1572-1641)

Ludwig Konig had to seek permission first to print the
rabbinical Bible + then hire the Jewish correctors
necessary for such a complex project. The actual printing
began between the mid August + mid-September of 1618.
The probable date of completion was sometime between
July 12 + Aug. 10 of 1619. Abraham Braunschweig
was the chief printer. Johannes Buxtorf I served as
regular professor of Hebrew language at the Univ. of Basel
from 1590 until his death in 1629.