Faro Pentatuch

The Faro Pentatuch is the first printed book published in Portugal, printed in 1487.[1]

It was printed in Hebrew, and published by a Jew, Samuel Gacon in Faro, in southern Portugal, after he had fled from the Spanish Inquisition.[2]

The only surviving copy is in the British Library in London.

See also

References
  1. "From the Dawn of Printing Why Rare Hebrew Manuscripts Are Commanding Exorbitant Fees". Archived from the original on 2016-04-26.
  2. Rosemarie Erika Horch (1987). "Zur Frage des ersten in portugiesischer Sprache gedruckten Buches". Gutenberg-Jahrbuch. 62: 125–134.
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