Opening Page of Fifteenth-Century Italian Printing of Ramban’s Commentary on Torah

 

Opening Page of Fifteenth-Century Italian Printing of Ramban’s Commentary on Torah

Opening page of Rabbi Moses ben Nahman’s Commentary on the Torah, printed in Naples in 1490 by the press associated with Joseph ben Jacob Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser. The ornamental border and contrasting Hebrew type reflect the craftsmanship of early Hebrew printing in Renaissance Italy.

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica.

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