Midrash Tanchuma – Venice, 1545 – Printed by Daniel Bomberg

Midrash Tanchuma – Venice, 1545 – Printed by Daniel Bomberg

Tanchuma, "called Yelamdenu, Midrash on the Five Books of the Torah". Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1545. Second edition.
Ownership inscriptions on title page: "I, Avraham Pescarolo, purchased this book from R. Yehudah Bachi, Turin". Deleted inscriptions on second leaf of Avraham Pescarolo, dated 1737. (R. Yehudah Bachi named here is perhaps the father of R. Shimshon Bachi the second).
Censorship expurgations on several leaves (including many lines towards the end of Parashat Tzav with a comparison between the Jewish people and the gentiles and apostates).
Signature of censor on last leaf, in Latin and Hebrew (Hebrew portion of signature trimmed).

7, 9-97 leaves. Missing leaf 8, with handwritten replacement. 26 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains and dark stains. Worming, repaired with paper. Marginal open tears to title page and several other leaves, affecting text. Title page mounted on thick paper. Close trimming, slightly affecting text on several leaves. Old binding, without spine, worn and damaged.