| Record ID | cp010323 |
| Voet reference number | 654 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:3243205 |
| Uniform title | BIBLE: Editions in Hebrew |
| Title page transcription | Title-page: see reproduction [Translation of Hebrew text: 'Five Books of the Law carefully printed by Christopher Plantin in the year 340 of the minor computus here [at] the famous city Antwerp']. |
| Collation | 4⁰ [163]: 1-16VIII 17IV, 18-64VIII [quires numbered in Arabic numerals with Roman numerators]; folios 1r-506v, [507r-508v] [numbered in Hebrew numerals]. Printed, according to Hebrew tradition, from back to front |
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| Pages | [1r]: Title [1v]: Blank 2r-[507r]: Text [507v]: Colophon [Translation of Hebrew text: 'Printed by and in the house of Christopher Plantin in the year 342 of the minor computus. Blessed be God who has not withdrawn his mercy from us, but has enabled us to finish this book without misfortune or adversity'] [508r-v]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- R 56.24University Library BernCambridgeUniversity of Groningen LibraryCambridge University LibraryVatican Apolstolic Library |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 214 (1580, no. 1) and page 236 (1582, no. 1) Masch, I, page 33 Darlow-Moule, no. 5104 |
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| Note 1 | Set in Hebrew type with vowel-points. |
| Note 2 | Reprint of the in 4⁰ edition of 1566 (see no. cp012550), following very closely its model even in the numbering and the disposition of the pages. |
| Note 3 | The date on the title-page is given as 1580, but the colophon says 1582. In fact, Plantin started already at the end of 1579 with this Hebrew Bible (letter to Buyssetius, 10 December 1579 [Corr., VI, no. 851, page 115]: 'Sub praelish abemus sequentia…Biblia hebraea in 4to'), but the work must only have been finished in 1582, if not in 1583. In any way, in the book-catalogues it is mentioned with or under the year 1583: in M 296, folio 2r ([Biblia Hebraica in 4⁰] eadem 4⁰ a⁰ 1583, [price:] stuivers 50), and in M 321, sub 1583 ('Biblia Haebraica in 4⁰, f[euilles] -, [price:] stuivers 50'). |
| Note 4 | The type-composition was used to issue editions in 16mo of the Psalmi, 1581 (see no. cp011432), and the Proverbia, 1581 (see no. cp012110). |
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