Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah.
Corneille de Bomberghe
Category
Books
Date
1566
Materials
Place of origin
Antwerp
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3183041
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v. ; 8vo. Bound in 2 vols. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "Carolus Robarteus / Galtorus Snelus / his hand and written his peen" [i.e. Walter Snell, the Robartes chaplain and tutor, who died ca. 1677]. Pencil number (probably nineteenth-century) on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "35". Manuscript notes on vol. 1 front fly-leaf verso in hand of John Robartes, 2nd Baron Robartes of Truro (1606-85). Manuscript notes on vol. 1 rear fly-leaf in Greek and Hebrew. Manuscript inscription on vol. 3 title page: "Gualterus Snellius" [i.e. Walter Snell]. Manuscript inscription on vol. 2 rear fly-leaf: "Walter: Snell His: Booke 1648" [i.e. Walter Snell]. Binding: sixteenth-century calf; triple blind fillet border; blind centrepiece stamp. Both vols. rebacked in sheepskin. Gilt title, vol. nos. and imprint on spines.
Makers and roles
Corneille de Bomberghe Christophe Plantin (1520-1589).