The first printed Torah: Bologna, 1482

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No baloney, this very first printed Torah is closer in time to Leningradensis than us. Several features are interesting. One is that they seem to give up on rafe after a few pages. Second, it's important to keep in mind that none of the eight Tiberian non-L manuscripts collated in BHQ have Genesis 1:1-2:5a. L is all we have. (And only two Qumran fragments have anything from 1:1-1:7; it seems being first means being ravaged by decay.) And since a half-dozen characters of Genesis 1-2:5a in L are illegible or irrecoverable, this is the earliest witness I've seen yet to, say, the merkha under the first word of 1:3 not evident in L or the missing vav in 1:26 that is forever lost due to fragmentation in 

 

https://archive.org/details/Hamishah_Humshe_Torah/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater

 

 

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[Brian K. Mitchell]

Here is a little bit more about it:

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First Pentateuch to include both the text of the Torah and Targum Onkelos and Rashi's commentary. This may also be the first Pentateuch printed with vocalization and cantillation marks (another early Torah edition with vocalization and cantillation, dated ca. 1480, was printed by Isaac son of Aaron d'Este and Moses son of Eliezer Refael. it is unknown whether it was printed before or after the present Pentateuch)  Beautiful print, from the early days of Hebrew printing, on exceptionally high-quality paper. The text was printed using two different types: the text of the Torah, the page headings and the initial words of the Targum, commentary and colophon were printed in large, Sephardic square type. Targum Onkelos, Rashi's commentary, the total of verses and colophon were printed in Italian semi-cursive type. The present edition was edited by Yosef Chaim son of Aharon Strasbourg Zarfati, and printed by Abraham son of Haim the Dyer (de Tintori) of Pesaro. The printing was commissioned and funded by Joseph son of Abraham Caravita.

 

https://www.kedem-auctions.com/en/content/five-books-torah-targum-onkelos-and-rashi-–-incunabula-–-bologna-1482-–-first-printing

[Brian K. Mitchell]

 

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On January 26, 1482 Jewish printer Abraham ben Hayyim dei Tintori (Dei Pinti) of Pesaro, Italy, completed the first printed edition of the Torah, or Pentateuch, in Hebrew in Bologna. The edition was financed by Joseph ben Abraham Caravita. The text was corrected by Joseph Hayyim ben Aaron Strasbourg Zarfati. This was also the first edition to which vocalization and cantillation marks were added, and the first time that the printed Biblical text was accompanied by the commentary of Rashi (Solomon Ben Issac, Shlomo Yitzchaki רבי שלמה יצחקי‎;), and by the paraphrase in Aramaic (Targum Onkelos). The edition set the model for the page format still in use for printing editions of the Torah.

 

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