A13203:500
[The Pentateuch]
printed by Hans Luft i.e. Johan Hoochstraten, 1530
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Off Asher cometh fat breed / and he shall give pleasures for a king.
Off Asser cometh fatt breed / and he shall geue pleasures for a kynge.
Naphtali is a swift hind / and giveth goodly words.
Nepthali is a swyft hynde / ād geueth goodly wordes.
That flourishing child Joseph / that flourishing child and goodly unto the eye: the daughters come forth to bear rule. The shooters have envied him and chide with him and hated him / and yet his bow bode fast / & his arms and his hands were strong / by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob: out of him shall come an herd man a stone in Israel. Thy fathers God shall help the / & the almighty shall bless the with blessings from heaven above / and with blessings of the water that lieth under / & with blessings of the breasts & of the womb• ⟨image 84⟩The blessings of thy father were strong: even as the blessings of my elders / after the desire of the hiest in the world / and these blessings shall fall on the head of Joseph / and on the top of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
That florishynge childe Ioseph / that florishing childe and goodly vn to the eye: the doughters come forth to bere ruele. The shoters haue envyed him and chyde with him ād hated him / and yet his bowe bode fast / & his armes and his handes were stronge / by the handes of the myghtye God of Iacob: out of him shall come an herde mā a stone in Israel. Thi fathers God shall helpe the / & the almightie shall blesse the with blessinges from heaven aboue / and with blessinges of the water that lieth vnder / & with blessinges of the brestes & of the womb