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
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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
about 1250–1300
19th century
late 13th century
about 1433–66
about 1400–50
