Exhibited: Pitts Theology Library. Materiality of Devotion: From Manuscript to Print. Martin Luther’s Reform of University and Church. That We a Godly Life May Live. Pitts Theology Library. Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection.
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Perush Rashi ʻal ha-Torah. 1517. Sirāj. Selections. Hebrew. Dikduke ha-ṭiʻamim. Elu hen ha-teshuvot she-ʻasah Radaḳ la-Notsrim. Bible. Old Testament. Aramaic. 1517.
First Rabbinic Bible. First complete Hebrew Bible, with Rabbinic commentaries, from the house of the Venetian printer, Daniel Bomberg. Bomberg, a Christian, appealed to the Christian, as well as to the Jewish market, and his Rabbinic Bible became the Hebrew Bible of choice among the Reformers. Date of printing from colophon. Colophon: ... Poh Venitsyah ha-ʻir ha-gedolah asher mi-meḥoz Iṭalyah bi-shenat 17 le-Dukus Leonardo Loridano, shenat 278 le.f.ḳ. ba-yom 27 la-ḥodesh Kislev ... Edited by Felix Pratensis. Signatures: 1-16⁸ 17⁶, ²1-15⁸, ³1-22⁸ ³23⁴, ⁴1-8⁸ ⁴9⁴, chi 1, ⁵1-2⁸ ⁵3¹⁰ ⁵4-8⁸, ⁶1-2⁸ ⁶3⁶ ⁶4⁴, ⁷1-6⁸, ⁸1⁸ ⁸2⁶, ⁹1⁶ ⁹2⁴. Gatherings signed in Hebrew characters. Leaf ⁷1 5 missigned ⁷1 6, leaf ⁷3 1 missigned ⁷2 1. Imperfect copy: Leaf 2 1, containing Gen. 13: 13b-14: 13b lacking; one or more prefatory leaves lacking?. Initial words. Includes copyright issued by Pope Leo X--Leaf ⁷6 8. From the library of Mordekhai Shemuʼel Gerondi mi-Padova 5471 [1810 or 1811], with his signature. From the library of Binyamin Yitsḥaḳ ben Binyamin mi-Lit[as?], with his signature. Includes collation statement by Oscar Richter, with his signature. Old marginalia. Bound in old blind-tooled, bordered, and panelled leather over wooden boards. Book has been boxed. Loose pages are in an acid-free folder in a compartment beneath the book. Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection--Pitts Theology Library