10 October 2017 à 19:12
Newly discovered in Marsh's Library, Dublin a copy of one of the first printed books (an incunable) in Portugal - The book is in Hebrew and was printed in Lisbon in Portugal on 16 July 1489. It is currently 528 years old, and predates by three years Columbus’s voyage to the New World and the expulsion of the Jews from Iberia. The text is a Commentary on the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible) by a Jewish scholar named Moses ben Nahman. The printer was Eliezer Toledano, who operated a press in Lisbon.
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