Ezrat HaSofer Chumashim– Amsterdam, 1767-1769 – Elaborate Set

Ezrat HaSofer, Tikun Sofrim Vavei Ha’Amudim [Five Books of the Torah, with Haftarot]. With Or Torah glosses by Rabbi Menachem Di Lunzano “It is proper to study and use for copying a Sefer Torah”. Amsterdam, [1767-1769].
The book was intended to be used by scribes as a model for writing a Sefer Torah [according to the custom called Vavei Ha’Amudim, each column of the Sefer Torah starts with the letter Vav]. Printed that year in two editions, this is the edition with vowels, te’amim and numbering of the verses and chapters.
Shirat HaYam was designed according to the manner it is written in a Sefer Torah and therefore it was printed on wider pages folded inside the book.
The leaf before the title page is illustrated in the first volume with the date 1769. The rest of the title pages are dated 1767. Separate title pages for the section of Haftarot in each volume with the date 1778.
This is a slightly different copy from what is listed in the Bibliography Institute. Printed at the end of Devarim are the Leap Year Calendars (separate title page) – calendar leaves for fixing festivals (Hebrew
and Spanish). The book Me'ir Netiv – on the Holy Names and mundane names in a Sefer Torah is also printed at the end of Devarim and not at the beginning of Bereshit [as well as the poems praising the book and its editor]. The Haftarah of Shabbat Eichah is printed with a Spanish translation, verse per verse.
5 volumes, 19 cm. Bereshit: [1], 65; 26 leaves. Shemot: 66-121; [2], 28 leaves. Vayikra: 122-163; [2], 24 leaves. Bamidbar: 164-221; [2], 16 leaves. Devarim: 222-290, [12] leaves. [4] leaves of approbations and the introduction to the first part were mistakenly bound between the page of the haftarot of Sefer Bamidbar.
Fancy set, with original bindings, gilded impressions with the acronyms of the owner's name. Gilded edges. Fabric bookmarks. Most of the leaves are in good condition, few stains. Sefer Bereshit has moisture stains.