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TYPE: Book
COMPONENTS: Volume III: 5-345 of 348 Psalms: 208 pages - starts at page 1
CONDITION: Volume III: Lacking first and last 3 leaves including title page; needs binding, else complete and good condition. Psalms: Lacking title page, else complete.
NOTES: An extremely rare early piece of Ladino. This Bible was printed in Constantinople in four volumes from 1739-1745 and is very rare.
LANGUAGE
Ladino
ITEM ID: 1128
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First Ladino Bible (Prophets & Psalms)

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DATE
Year: 1744
Decade: 1740s
Century: 18th (1701-1800)

Near Complete Volume III of the First Complete Bible in Ladino, (major and minor prophents) and The Book of Psalms. Hebrew text of the Books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the minor prohets as well as the Tehillim / Psalms with Ladino translation by Avraham Ben Yitzhak Assa in facing columns and Rashi’s commentary at the bottom of each page.

ARTISTS
Name: Avraham ben Yitzhak Asa
Type: Translator
Workded In: Constantinople
Artist Information: Abraham ben Yitzhak Asa lived in Constantinople in the 18th century. According to Yaari, he did more for Ladino literature than anyone else, both before and after (Yaari, Abraham, "Likutim Biblyiografiyim ... 4. Avraham ben Yitzhak Assa ..." in Kiryat Sefer 10:3 [Sept. 1933], p. 378). Yaari lists seven major works written or translated by Asa, including his important translation of the Bible into Ladino, issued in 4 parts between 1739 and 1745.