(BIBLE IN HEBREW.) Sefer Ezrat ha-Sofer. Hamisha Humshei Torah. Tikkun Sofrim. Vavei ha-Amudim. Unvocalized text, including Haftarot with separate title and pagination in each volume; edited by Moses ben Judah Pisa, with his Me'ir Nativ in Volume 1. 5 engraved additional titles; 4 (of 5) letterpress volume titles in Hebrew and Latin, lacking the first for Bereshit. 5 volumes. 8vo, 199x127 mm, contemporary 1/2 calf gilt, cover edges and corners worn, Volume 3 front joint cracked; occasional marginal soiling and minor stains, insignificant repairs in blank lower margin of several leaves toward end of Volume 5. 19th-century Polish censor's stamp on letterpress titles; bookplates of the physician and medical historian Joshua O. Leibowitz (1895-1993). Amsterdam: Gerhard Johan Janson & Israel Mondovy, 1767-69
first edition edited by Pisa, designed as a model for Torah scribes in accordance with Halakhic requirements, with each pair of facing pages corresponding to a single 42-line column of manuscript text beginning with the letter Vav. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1975. Bound at the end of Volume 2 is a 13-leaf manuscript of the Book of Esther, written in unvocalized square script in black ink on laid paper and dated 1794.
