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Polyglot Bible (Constantinople)
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This is the frontispiece and first page of the Constantinople Polyglot Bible, the first of two multilingual editions of the Pentateuch printed by Eliezer Soncino in Constantinople. It contained the…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1546

Subjects:

Print, Bible, Jewish languages, Translation, Diaspora

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology
Printed page of Hebrew text in center and decorative border around page with urns, flowers, vines, and faces.
Introduction to the Commentary on Numbers—Me’am Lo’ez by Isaac Magriso
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The introduction to the first volume of this work, which you already have, explains that one must know what mitzvot God commanded us to perform, and what he obliged us to avoid, to find…

Contributor:

Me’am Lo’ez

Places:

Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)

Date:

1764

Subjects:

Bible, Economic life, Print, Talmud, Aggadah

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology, Biblical Commentary