Accession number:
PML 75567
Uniform title:
Bible. Psalms. Hebrew. 1477.
Published:
[Northern Italy] : Joseph, Nerija and Hayyim Mordecai, Hezekiah de Venturo, 20 Elul [5]237 [29 August 1477]
Description:
[153] leaves ; 29.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1978.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [19]/8v.
On the place of printing, see A.K. Offenberg, The Library, 6th ser., 8 (1986): pp.72-3.
Printed in Mordecai and Venturo's types 1:93H and 2:93H.
Signatures (from BMC): [*² (-2) 1-5⁸ 6¹⁰ 7-8⁸] (1-4)[9]⁸ (5-8)[10]⁸ (9-12)[11]⁸ (14-16)[12]⁸ (20)[13]⁸ (21-24)[14]⁸ (25 27-28)[15]⁸ (29-30)[16]⁶ (32-35)[17]⁸ (36-39)[18]⁸ (40-42)[19]⁸: 153 leaves. Leaf [*]/1 is non-conjugate (singleton).
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Commentary by David Kimhi.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.4 x 20.5 cm.
Binding:
Contemporary Italian blind-tooled brown morocco over reverse-bevelled wooden boards (29.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 3 supports; rebacked and restored. Plain vellum pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands and edges. 2 clasps, 5 bosses on each board.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Some marginal notations sporadically throughout text and parts of commentary inked out. Unidentified inscriptions in Hebrew and Latin/Italian (rear endleaf recto).
Provenance:
Louis H. Silver (d. 1963), booklabel (front pastedown), his collection was purchased in 1964 by: The Newberry Library, with duplicates sold, Sothbey's NY, 8 Nov. 1965, lot 148, to H.P. Kraus; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from H.P. Kraus, 1978.
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