Hebrew Bible: Pentateuch
Medium/TechniqueLeather
Brown leather cover with gold border, birds and angels supporting crown on each side.
Dimensions18 x 12 cm (7 1/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Credit LineDenman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession number17.512
On View
Not on viewClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
InscriptionsFive Books of the Torah. "Propps" in Amsterdam. Printed by the sons of our teacher and Rabbi Solomon Propps.
Inner inscription: dated Hebrew date 5522=1762ProvenanceBy 1913, Denman Waldo Ross; 1917, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA.
early 18th century
Unidentified artist
about 1250–1300
19th century
mid-19th century
late 13th century
about 1433–66