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Hebrew Bible: Pentateuch

1762

Medium/Technique Leather
Brown leather cover with gold border, birds and angels supporting crown on each side.
Dimensions 18 x 12 cm (7 1/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.512
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CollectionsEurope, Judaica
ClassificationsBooks and manuscriptsBooks

DescriptionTitle page shows Moses on Mount and his brother Aaron the High Priest. Mount Sinai is above and and the ancient Temple below.

Dated 5522 Hebrew date = 1762
InscriptionsFive Books of the Torah. "Propps" in Amsterdam. Printed by the sons of our teacher and Rabbi Solomon Propps.

Inner inscription: dated Hebrew date 5522=1762
ProvenanceBy 1913, Denman Waldo Ross; 1917, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA.