Ink mark on Pentateuch with Rabbinic Commentary

Diagonal ink mark in the center created by inadvertent printing of a ‘fallen type’ which provides information about the size of type used, the print run, and corrections made by the printers of this early Hebrew press. Pentateuch with Rabbinic Commentary, printed in Istanbul by the Ibn Nahmias brothers, 1522. Friedberg F 00037, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto.

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