HEBREW BIBLE, LEIDEN: SONS OF ꧒FRANCISCUS RAPHELENGIUS, 1610

4 parts in 1 volume (4 1/8 x 2 1/4 in.; 105 x 56 mm): Part 1 (Pentateuch): 264 pages; Part 2 (Former Prophets): 228 pages (p. [228] blank); Part 3 (Latter Prophets): 238 pages (final two blanks removed); Part 4 (Writings): 288 pages (p. [288] blank) on paper; printed without vocalization or accentuation; marginal chapter numeration in Hebrew characters; every five verses within a chapter numbered in Hebrew characters as well. Four title pages; each biblical book (except Genesis) headed by its title in enlarged letters and an enlarged incipit; enlarged incipits at the beginning of new parashiyyot in the Pentateuch; the word Be-reshit (1:3) within a decorative frame; decorative device at h🌟ead of Isaiah (3:3); biblical songs and other texts given special layout (1:87-88, 260-262; 2:18, 41-42, 141-142; 4:152); marginal corrections in pen on 1:5, 43-44, 50, 79, 110-111, 123; verse numeration in pen on 1:80-90, 2:38, 3:9-47, 3:225-235; Latin marginalia in pen on 1:97, 179, 196, 4:242; intermittent underlining in pen. Slight scattered staining and browning; minor dogearing; episodic tracing of printed text in pen; some ink transferred from pastedown of upper board to first title page; small hole in outer margins of 1:[1]-6; small worm track in outer edges of 1:163-164; stub between 2:118-119 and between 4:228-229; book of Psalms (4:[1]-70) supplied from another copy. Early gilt-tooled calf, scuffed and worn around edges; one brass clasp on fore-edge intact, the other lacking; spine in four compartments with raised bands, worn and cr🐻eased; paper tickets with title, place, and date, as well as library shelf mark, on spine; all edges gilt (except 4:[1]-70); contemporary paper flyleaves and pastedowns.