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The Kennicott Bible, London: Facsimile Editions, 1985. 2 volumes, folio (312 x 254mm). Facsimile volume in colour and heightened in burnished gold and silver, original tanned morocco box binding elaborately tooled in blind, accompanying commentary volume with text by Bezalel Narkiss and Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, contemporary tanned morocco, both housed in blue cloth box. NUMBER 41 OF 500 COPIES (limitation slip loosely inserted).
The fine facsimile of the lavishly illuminated Hebrew bible, Bodleian Library, Kennicott 1, named after the 18th-century Christian Hebraist scholar, Benjamin Kennicott who was behind the manuscript's acquisition in 1771. Written and illuminated in 1476 in north west Spain, the bible was signed by its scribe, Moses Ibn Zabara and its artist, Joseph Ibn Hayyim. (2)
The fine facsimile of the lavishly illuminated Hebrew bible, Bodleian Library, Kennicott 1, named after the 18th-century Christian Hebraist scholar, Benjamin Kennicott who was behind the manuscript's acquisition in 1771. Written and illuminated in 1476 in north west Spain, the bible was signed by its scribe, Moses Ibn Zabara and its artist, Joseph Ibn Hayyim. (2)
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