Ezrat HaSofer Chumashim – Amsterdam, 1767-1769 – Vowelized Edition – Four of Five Volumes – With Original Elegant ...

Ezrat HaSofer Chumashim – Amsterdam, 1767-1769 – Vowelized Edition – Four of Five Volumes – With Original Elegant Leather Bindings Adorned with Clasps

Ezrat HaSofer, "Tikun Sofrim Vavei HaAmudim", Shemot through Devarim, with Haftarot, and with Or Torah by R. Menachem de Lonzano. Amsterdam: Gerhard Johann Janson at press of Yisrael Mondovi, [1767-1769]. Four of five volumes. Illustrated half-title in all volumes, dated 1769. Other title pages dated 1767. Divisional title pages for Haftarot sections, dated 1768.

Fine copies, bound in original elegant leather binding adorned with silver clasps.
Does not contain Bereshit volume with Meir Nativ, a work on Holy Names in the Torah, by R. Yehuda Pisa. Printed at the end of the Book of Devarim is the Haftarah of Shabbat Eichah with Spanish translation (verse per verse), and Luchot HaIbur (calendrical tables; divisional title page; Hebrew and Portuguese).
This book was prepared as a model for scribes writing a Torah scroll (conforming with the custom known as Vavei HaAmudim – each column of the Torah scroll starting with the letter Vav). Shirat HaYam and Shirat Haazinu are printed on wider leaves, fitting with their layout in the Torah scroll.

Four volumes. Shemot: [1], [66]-121; [2], 28 leaves. Vayikra: [1], [122]-163; [2], 24 leaves. Bamidbar: [2], [165]-221; [2], 16 leaves. Devarim: [2], [223]-272, [2]; [3], 277-290; [8] leaves. Approx. 20 cm. High-quality paper. Gilt edges. Good condition. Stains. Original leather bindings, with many gilt decorations, original color endpaper and silver clasps (one clasp damaged and missing fastener). Wear and damage to bindings and spines.
Another edition was published in the same period, without vowels, cantillation marks and chapter numbers.

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