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Bidding Information
Lot #    12189
Auction End Date    11/1/2005 12:15:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Bible - Later Prophets and Writings
Title (Hebrew)    תנך - נביאים אחרונים וכתובים
Author    [Bible - Miniature]
City    Antwerp
Publisher    Christopher Plantin
Publication Date    1574
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   Part II only. 287; 352 pp., 100:45 mm., light age staining, old hands, stamp. A good copy bound in modern cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description
   Plantin was, after Daniel Bomberg, the outstanding 16th-century Christian printer of Hebrew books. By 1576 he operated 22 presses and was the leading printer-publisher of northern Europe. Following the "Spanish Fury" of 1576, he spent some years in France and Holland, eventually returning to Antwerp, where he died. His descendants maintained the press until 1875, when the Antwerp municipality transformed it into the present-day Plantin-Moretus Museum - a unique monument to Renaissance printing and publishing.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
16th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Holland:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Miniatures:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica