4to (24,5 x 18 cm), 4, 468, 1 ff. With 4 titles in a beautiful woodcut architectural border. Printed from back to front in Hebrew script, in two columns with commentary below. Some foxing, a few lvs. with damp-staining. Tanach with commentary and translation into Ladino (Judaeo-Spanish) by Rabbi Yaakov Lombbrozzo, endorsed by Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh of Medona. Vellum binding, soiled, scratches, red edges
The translator Rabbi Yaakov Lombrozzo was a sage of Venice during the reign of Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh of Modena, and showed his knowledge of Hebrew grammar with his exegesis printed in Venice in 1630 (the cover of the Last Prophets has the year 1630 written while the others have 1639) on Tanach, and for the introduction he wrote before his commentary. (History of the Italian Jewish Sages, p. 201) Scarce. Ladino or Judaeo-Spanish is a Romance language spoken by Sephardic Jews, their language is nowadays in serious danger of extinction.
Provenance:
dr. Abraham Heyman, Mannheim, ms. on fly leaf
