Beschreibung:

BIBLE, Spanish. Humas de parasioth y aftharoth, traduzido palabra por palabra de la verdad Hebraica en Español [Pentateuch in Spanish]. Amsterdam: Menasseh ben Israel, 1627. Small 8vo, 137 x 85 mm. (5 3/8 x 3 3/8 in.), rebound in modern calf, gilt-lettered on spine; lacking 3 leaves at end (Z4-Z6; 2 leaves from the Tabla and one blank leaf), title and Z3 defective (heavily chipped and wormed with loss (tape-laminated), browned and stained throughout, margins trimmed close (often affecting shoulder notes and catchwords etc.). Sold not subject to return. Wolf, III, 1463, IV, 18; Rodr. Castro, p. 476; Rib. Santos, p. 243; Kayserling, p. 29; Palau 162790; Peeters 876; Boer 2.1. Very rare. Not in the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, not in the British Library. The first book in Spanish from the printing house of Menasseh ben Israel. The Spanish translation is from the Bible of Ferrara. See: H. den Boer, "La Biblia de Ferrara...entre los sefardies de origen converso." In: Introducción a la Biblia de Ferrara, Madrid, 1994, pp. 251-296; 258-59, and 287.