Auction 100 – Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection

Torah, Neviim and Ketuvim – Geneva, 1618 – Original Decorated Leather Binding

Opening: $1,500
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Sold for: $2,125
Including buyer's premium

Five Books of the Torah, Neviim and Ketuvim. Geneva: Kafa [Cephas] Elon (Petrus de la Rouière), 1618.
Original leather binding, decorated.
Vocalized Bible. Two columns per page. Divisional title pages for Neviim Rishonim, Neviim Acharonim and Ketuvim. The Five Megillot appear after the Book of Iyov in the present copy.
Chapters and every fifth verse numbered in right or left margins.
Ketuvim title page differs from the other title pages; it is printed in a decorated frame with the secular year in Hebrew letters (according to Steinschneider the date is to be corrected to read 1617). This title page does not appear in all copies.
Inscription on front endpaper: "Purchased by Avraham HaKohen of Głogów". Additional inscriptions in Latin.


128; [145]-369; 60, 129-144; 61-124 leaves. 22 cm. Good condition. Stains. Marginal tears to several leaves. Worming to endpapers. Original decorated leather binding. Damage to binding.

CB, no. 420; Zedner, p. 99; Darlow & Moule, no. 5118.

Bible and Tehillim
Bible and Tehillim