Casa de Alba Bible.- "BIBLE (Old Testament). Translated from Hebrew into Spanish by Rabbi Mose Arragel of Guadalfajara (1422-1433?) and published by the Duke of Berwick and Alba) M.: Imp. Artística, 1920-22. Label folio, full Mudejar-style embossed leather (rubs and open hinges) 2 vols. Palau 29064: "...The printing work began in July 1917 and lasted five and a half years... The edition is sumptuous and worthy of the munificence of the Duke of Alba. The circulation is 300 copies... The code of this Bible, which is kept in the palace of the Duke of Alba, was first made known by J. Lorenzo Villanueva... It is not known how, but it is that in 1624 This codex was in the possession of the General Inquisitor D. Andrés Pacheco, who sent it to D. Gaspar de Guzmán, Duke of Olivares, "so that he could have, read, possess and keep it in his Library in attention to the favors and thanks that with his father, the Count of Olivares, they had made the Holy Office, and considering that said Bible had belonged to one of the House of Guzmán"..." High prices. First edition that reproduces the codex, very scarce in trade.
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2.000 €
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4.750 €
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