Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ; [Neviʼim rishonim ; Neviʼim aḥaronim ; Ketuvim]
Contributors: Rovière, Pierre de la, active 1599-1623
Publisher: Be-vet ha-adon ... Kafa Ilan
Published: 1618
Place of publication: Geneṿa
Language: heb
Number of pages: 369
Work titles: Bible Old Testament Hebrew 1618
Notes: Each volume has a separate t.p.; some copies of Ketuvim have date 374 [1613 or 1614]; others have a t.p. with a decorative border and the date alef, tav, resh, vav [should be yod] zayin [= 1616 or 1617].

Chapters and every fifth verse numbered in the outer margin of each page.

Fonts are the same as those used in the Geneva 5677-5678 ed. printed in 16mo.

Colophon at end of Ketuvim: "Ṿa-tishlam ha-melakhah melekhet ha-ḳodesh bi-shenat 378 li-f.ḳ. be-hodesh Av sheloshah ʻasar yom bo ʻim roṿ ʻiyun ṿe-tiḳun ʻal yad ha-gever huḳam ʻal ha-melakhah Yohan Gazpar Ereri ha-Germani bi-defus Kafa Elon."

First word of each book set in a decorative wood engraving.

The Five scrolls follow the Pentateuch.

Kafa Elon (Ilan) is the Hebrew name of Pierre de la Rovière.

Printer's device on t.p.: Man (Peter?) on rocky crag looking heavenward; inscription: "Nihil ad nos quae infra nos."

Darlow & Moule 5118

Www.hebrew-bibliography.com 0304564

Vinograd, Geneva, no. 11

Abramsky, VII. 434

Steinschneider, Bodleiana no. 420