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Lot #    5383
Auction End Date    8/12/2003 2:14:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Hamishah Homshei Torah: Vayikra, Bamidbar, Devarim
Title (Hebrew)    åé÷øà, áîãáø, ãáøéí îçîùä çåîùé úåøä
Author    [Ladino] Hayyim of Berlin, Translator
City    Vienna
Publisher    Georg Holzinger
Publication Date    1814
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Interest		    Checked
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1], 40, 5, 16, [1], 52, 8, 12, [1], 50, 7, 19 ff., folio, 240:192 mm., nice margins, stamp on title, usual age and damp staining, corners rounded and turned. A good copy bound in later half cloth boards. Very rare - not listed in CD-EPI, JUNL incomplete.
          
Paragraph 1    Rare and unusual edition of the Bible, with translation of the text into Ladino. While Ladino works were frequently printed in Salonika and Constantinople it is very unusual to find such a work printed in Vienna. The rarity of this Bible, printed from 1813 to 1816, is attested to by its absence from many collections of rare Judaica and by incomplete and inaccurate descriptions in many Hebrew bibliographical works.
          
Detailed
Description		    This is volume two of Hamishah Homshei Torah, consisting of Vayikra, Bamidbar,and Devarim. The translation into Ladino, the first in seventy years, is by Hayyim of Berlin.

Each book is into three parts. The first part consists of the text, which is in the outer column, accompanied by the Ladino translation in rabbinic letters in the inner column, and Rash below. This is followed by Minhat Shai with Massoretic notes, and then the Haftarot. The volumes are dated similarly but with different chronograms, as follows:

Vayikra éøàú ä' î÷åø çééí “The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life” (Proverbs 14:27)

Bamidbar úåøú çëí î÷åø çééí“The Torah of the wise is a fountain of life” (Proverbs 13:14)

Devarim î÷åø çééí ùëì áòìéå “Intelligence is a fountain of life to him who has it” (Proverbs 15:22)

          
Reference
Description		    Vinograd, Vienna 385 (no details)
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Ladino
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica