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The Tabernacle (15th.-19th. Century versions)

There are two places where God gives the ancient Israelites instructions as to how to build a building. One is the tabernacle given to Moses on Sinai; the other is the Temple in Jerusalem. The tabernacle was the temporary structure in which, we are told, God resided during the travels of the Israelites until He found a more permanent structure in the Temple.
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Title of Print: "Le Tabernacle etant erige les Chefs des Israelites offrent leur presens au Seigneur. Numbres Chap. VII." [On the engraving is the arrangement of the tribes in their camps, oxen drawn carts being brought up and gifts being presented to Moses, sacrifices being made in the courtyard, and a very beautiful tree.]
From: a 1713 French Bible; almost certainly drawn by Jan Luycken, one of the greatest Dutch illustrators of the time)
Page size:  15.75" x 11 "   Image size: 13" x 8.25"  Condition: Excellent with overall age-typical browning
Price:  $100   #TA18  Keywords: Numbers7

Title of Print: "THE CAMP OF THE ISRAELITES.  Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their fathers house. Numb:II.Ch.V.2." [On the engraving is the arrangement of the tribes with their names and numbers and their standards.] Pl. 49; page 418
From: Stackhouse's Bible History, 1732, the only edition that we have seen with hand colored plates (presumably original coloring.)
Page size:  14" x 9.5"   Image size: 12.5" x 7.5"  Condition: overall age-typical browning
Price:  $125   #TA49  #CSO49  Keywords: Numbers2

Subject of Print: The Tabernacle with its ark, menorah, incense altar, basin and its parts from the conception of Lamy (Table IV, page 70)
From: Almost certainly from an English edition of the influential work Aparatus ... by Bernardo Lamy, c1720. (Lamy was a French priest who had an original conception of the Temple.)
Page Size:  13.5" x 9.5"  Image Size: 7" x 10"  Condition:  fine, rich impression on nice, relatively clean, laid paper. Full margins are cropped by scanner  #TA15  SOLD

Title of Print: "Beschryving van de Legeringen Israels Rondom den Tabernakel, Opgerecht in de Woestyn."
Rough Translation: "Descripton of the Encampment of Isreal round the Tabernacle, [arranged] by the law in the Desert." [The tribes are pictured with their banners and the tents of the leaders, tent of Aaron, Moses, etc.]
From: From the 1725 Dutch edition of Augustine Calmet's Dictionary (first published in English in 1732).
Page Size:  18.5 x 15.25"  Image Size: 17" x 11.75"  Condition:  fine in all respects  Price:  $75   #TA16 Numbers Exodus

Title of Print: "Grondtekening van de Legeringen der Israeliten, met het Getal der Mannen van Twintig Jaaren en daar boven, Bekwaam om Wapenen te Dragen: In het geheel uitmakende 625850 volgens de uitrekening aangehaald. Num.I.II.III."
Rough Translation: "Ground-drawing of the Israelite Encampment, with the Men of Twenty and thereabouts who are Capable of Bearing Arms: The complete calling of 625,850 as it was calculated and written down. Numbers 1, 2, 3." [The encampment of each of the 12 tribes is pictured along with the numbers of the tribe - e.g. Gershonites 7500. Also the banners of the12 tribes are pictured.]
From: From the 1725 Dutch edition of Augustine Calmet's Dictionary (first published in English in 1732).
Page Size:  19 x 15"  Image Size: 16.5" x 11.75"  Condition:  fine even with the original creases made when the paper was made  Price:  $55   #TA17 Keywords: Numbers1 Numbers2 Numbers3

Title of Print: "Le Tabernacle. Exod. chap. XXVII. Moyse fait dresser le Tabernacle selon l'ordre qu'il en avoit receu de Dieu."
Rough translation: "Moses makes the Tabernacle according to the orders he received from God."
From: probably from a French Bible history Figures de la Bible of the 18th. Century
Subject: A tiny Moses on Sinai in the back; tabernacle conceived with a large column and various levels of curtains. Moses at others are in prayer. The tabernacle has sun-light streaming down on it. There is a tree that does not look of a desert variety.
Mat Size:  11" x 12"  Image Size: 5" x 6.5"  Condition:  nice, dark impression; cut from a larger page. Price:  $20   #TA3  Keywords: Exodus

Title of Print: "den Tabernakel met synen Voorhof in opstal en Dienst."
Rough translation: "Tabernacle with the forecourt in which structure the rituals are performed."
From: Wilhelmus Goeree, Republyk der Hebreen ... der Joden, Amsterdam, 1683-5; print is probably by Jan Luyken (please see Goeree page)
Subject: tabernacle with court and Holy of Holies; camps visible outside with people milling around; fine details typical of Luyken of ritual activities; nice details of posts, curtains, etc.
Mat Size:  11" x 12"  Image Size: 5" x 6.5"  Condition:  fine, rich impression; nicely matted  Price:  $85   #TA2  Keywords: Exodus

Folio XXXIII from the Nuremberg Chronicle [Latin]. 1493.
Subject: (Side 1): 4 images that seem to represent the water laver, the altar in two states, and Aaron, the high priest, with ephod, etc. (Side 2): 5 images that seem to represent the two versions of the pillars of the Ten Commandments, the boards of the tabernacle, how they are attached to each other (the poles, nails, etc.), and the way they fit into their moorings.
Page size:  11.25" x 16.75" Condition:  fine, dark impression on clean, strong paper with only a few spots and minimal browning. Price:  $225   #TA1 Keywords: Exodus

Title of Print: "De Levyten van XXV. Jaar oud in den Voorhof des Tabernaakels Gewassen en Beschooren; worden door Offerhanden en Water der Besprengin Ontzondigd; en door Hand Oplegging en voorstellen aant Heyligdom tot desselfs[?] Dienst ingewyd. Num: 8."
Rough translation: "The Levites from 25 Years old in the Court of the Tabernacle [perform the services of washing and sacrifice and imposition of fines in order to introduce purity through their services]."
From: Probably by Jan Luyken from a book about the Hebrews by Wilhelmus Goeree published in Holland in 1700.
Subject: One of the greatest prints of tabernacle activities. Numbers 8: "... 24. This is it what concerns the Levites: from twenty five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the Tent of Meeting; 25. And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon its service, and shall serve no more ..."  Moses and Aaron are seen. The altar and water basin are being used. The tribes surround the tabernacle with banners visible. People are getting blessed and chastised by priests. Clothes are being washed, etc.
Page Size:  13" x 17"  Image Size: 11.25" x 15"  Condition:  fine, rich clean impression; little browning; some minor tears and folding around margins not affecting image  Price:  $280   #TA4 Keywords: Numbers8

Title of Print: "The Sacrifice of the Red Heifer. Numb. Ch. 19th.  1. The Congregation of Israel. 2. The High Priest, and other Priests, in their several Offices." (Plate 99.No.LII)
From: Probably from Augustine Calmet's Dictionary first published in English in 1732.
Subject: beautiful modern hand-coloring of a fine, old print. The details of Numbers 19 are all shown "1. And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2. This is the ordinance of the Torah which the Lord has commanded, saying, Speak to the people of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, which has no blemish, and upon which never came yoke; 3. And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, that he may bring it forth outside the camp, and one shall slay it before his face; 4. And Eleazar the priest shall take of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle of its blood directly before the Tent of Meeting seven times; 5. And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; its skin, and its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall he burn; 6. And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. 7. Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening. 8. And he who burns it shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening. 9. And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the people of Israel for a water of sprinkling; it is a purification offering. 10. And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening; and it shall be to the people of Israel, and to the stranger who sojourns among them, for a statute forever. ..."
Page Size:  13" x 18.5"  Image Size: 11.25" x 16.5"  Condition:  fine, rich impression; beautiful modern hand coloring; old, original folds, perhaps a bit distracting  Price:  $175   #TA5  Keywords: Numbers19


From: These are two beautifully colored original, antique, chromolithographs (?) on heavy paper with tissues in place, from a Victorian Bible c1885.
Titles from first Print: Side 1: "The Holy of Holies." Side 2: "The Tabernacle in the Wilderness."
Subject: 2 sided image of the Tabernacle of Moses and inside of Holy of Holies with Aaron the priest. Approximate size of page: 9.25"x 11.5" Approximate size of image: 7.5" x 10.25" Condition: Images are beautiful and appear to have bright colors and beautiful gold, but the paper is very fragile and brittle with margins chipped right into title on bottom of big picture though framing would make it unnoticeable.
Titles from second Print: Side 1: "Furniture of the Tabernacle" Side 2 "The Tabernacle; Breast Plate, Altar of Burnt Offering, Censers, The Molten Sea, Brazen Laver."
Subject: 2 sided image of the Tabernacle of Moses which is shown as a tent.
Approximate size of page: 9.25"x 11.5"  Approximate size of image: 7.5" x 10.25"
Condition: Images are beautiful and appear to have bright colors and beautiful gold, but the paper is very fragile and brittle with margins chipped right into title on bottom of big picture though framing would make it unnoticeable.  Price for both:  SOLD  #TA6  Keywords: Exodus


From: These are two exquisitely detailed and beautiful engravings on heavy, presumably hand-laid paper, from a French book on the Temple and Tabernacle that follows Lamy's images c1835. Lamy was one of the few original thinkers on the subject of the structure of the Temple. His monumental work on the Tabernacle and Temple we have for sale.
Title of first print: "Le Tabernacle Dresse par Moise (selon les dessins du P. Lami)"
Rough translation: "The Tabernacle Made by Moses (according to the design of Father Lamy"
Also on plate: Monvoison del. Barriere freres direxerunt. Adam Sculp." PL. 7 and Tome 2. exode page 681
Subject: 3 views of the tabernacle of Moses with the altar and the water basin and the Holy of Holies with exquisite detail of fixings and coverings.
Approximate size of page: 16.5"x 10.75"  Approximate size of image: 8.5"x 14.25" Condition: pleasant, clear, dark crisp impression on nice old, thick laid paper with watermark; some soiling at bottom right margin from old page turning; old number at bottom right; i.e., no serious problems
Writing on second print: "F. Martin del. Barriere freres direxerunt. Dureau Sculp." On the top margin it says, PL. 8 and Tome 2. exode page 681.
Subject: View of the boards and tenons and base and columns and fittings and angles and decorations with a plan of the Holy of Holies and plans of how the parts fit together after Lamy. Labeled.
Approximate page size: 10.5" x 16.25" Approximate image size: 9" x 14.5" Condition: pleasant, clear, dark crisp impression on nice old, thick laid paper with watermark; some soiling at bottom right margin from old page turning; old number at bottom right; i.e., no serious problems  Price for both: $75  #TA7 Keywords: Exodus

Titles of 4 Images: 1. "Het opzetten van den Tabernakel." 2. "De Gouden Kandelaar, het Reukwerks Altaar, en de Tafel der Toonbrooden." 3. "De Heerlykheyd des Heeren over de Arke des verbonds." 4. "Viering van het Loofhutten Feest.", page 71.
Rough translations: 1. "The setting up of the Tabernacle." 2. "The Gold Menorah, the Incense Altar, and the Table of Showbread." 3. "The Magnificant Cherubim over the Ark of the covenant." 4. "Celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles."
Subject: 3 views of the building of the Tabernacle, the Ark, the inside of the Tabernacle, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
From: a Dutch Josephus dated 1704; the artist is the famous Jan Luyken.
Page Size:  15" x 18.5"  Image Size: 13" x 16.5"  Condition:  very good, rich impression with one age-typical brown spot in the lower right image   #TA14 #LMO71 SOLD

Title of Print: "den Tabernakel van Binnen met d'ordening der Heyligdommen."
Rough translation: "the Tabernacle with the Inside showing the ordering of the Holy area."
Subject: The inside of the tabernacle is shown with a man raising the curtains, another attending the table of breads, with the menorah and incense altar, ant the like. The most important aspect, however, is the flap over the Holy of Holies. When it is lifted one sees the high priest tending the ark. This is a very early example of the use of a flap.
From: Goeree's 1683-5 book on the Hebrew Republyk published in Amsterdam, probably by Jan Luyken (please see Goeree page).
Page Size:  6.25" x 7"  Image Size: 5" x 6.5"  Condition:  very good, rich impression with age-typical browning Price:  $150   #G6  #TA8 Keywords: Exodus


Title of Print: "den Tabernakel van buyten en op zie aante zien."
Rough translation: "The Tabernakel with inside and outside visible."
Subject: The tabernacle is shown with its posts, rings, staves, impressions of how the posts fit into the bases, and, most importantly, the various overlapping levels of curtains including one with imprints of cherubim and palm tree.
From: Goeree's 1683-5 book on the Hebrew Republyk published in Amsterdam, probably by Jan Luyken (please see Goeree page).
Page Size:  4.25" x 5.5"  Image Size: 3.25" x 5"  Condition:  good, clear impression with inoffensive pencil writing in lower margin  Price:  $25   #G5  #TA9 Keywords: Exodus

Title of Print: "Oprichting des Tabernakels inde Woestine door den Dienst der Leviten."
Rough translation: "The Setting Up of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness under the direction of the Levites."
Subject: Fantastic image of Moses drawing plan of the Tabernacle (as it was seen by him on Sinai) while the workers are building it in the background.
From: Goeree's 1683-5 book on the Hebrew Republyk published in Amsterdam, probably by Jan Luyken (please see Goeree page).
Page Size:  6.25" x 12"  Image Size: 5.75" x 12"  Condition:  very good impression with age-typical browning but also with two margin tears (one repaired by old tape), a paper clip rust mark visible in lower right margin and a little bit in upper right image; cropped a bit too close on right and left but not into image or border (part of right margin folded over); some unpleasant effects unless framed where almost none of the defects would be noticeable -- nevertheless, price lowered accordingly; all defects visible in scan but SCAN CUTS OFF part of right and left margins     #G20  #TA10 SOLD

Title of Print: "Leger-Ordening der xii Stammen met de Leviten rontsom den Tabernakel."
Rough translation: "The Encampment of the 12 Tribes with the Levites around the Tabernakel."
Subject: The tabernacle is at the center of the Levite camp. People look down on the scene from two levels of hills in front. The arrangement is in an ordered square. There is a banner in each camp.
From: Goeree's 1683-5 book on the Hebrew Republyk published in Amsterdam, probably by Jan Luyken (please see Goeree page).
Page Size:  6.25" x 7.25"  Image Size: 5.25" x 6.5"  Condition:  very good, clear impression on clean page  Price:  $75   #G4  #TA11 Keywords: Exodus

Title of Print: "Leger-Ordening Israels volgens de meening der Ioden."
Rough translation: "The Israelite Encampment according to the idea of the Jews."
Subject: The tabernacle is at the center of the Levite camp which is surrounded by the camps of the 12 tribes. Rivers come out from the area of the tabernacle. Men and cows look down on the scene from a hill in front. The arrangement is in an ordered rectangle or square. There is a banner in each camp.
From: Goeree's 1683-5 book on the Hebrew Republyk published in Amsterdam, probably by Jan Luyken (please see Goeree page).
Page Size:  6.25" x 7.25"  Image Size: 5.25" x 6.5"  Condition:  very good, clear impression with some age-typical browning  Price:  $75   #G2  #TA12 Keywords: Exodus

Title of Print: "Solomon built the House of the Lord on the Mount where the Lord appeared to David his Father: II. Chron. Ch. III. Ver. 1." Also on the Plate: Pl. 67; pa. 740.
From: from an English Bible history of 1762
Subject: There are eight separate images entitled "The Breast-plates with the Names of the Tribes"; "The Altar of Incense within the Temple"; "The Ark and Cherubims"; The Temple of Solomon"; The Tabernacle in the Wilderness"; "Moses"; "The Altar for Burt Offerings in the Court before the Temple"; "The Table of Shewbread."
Page Size: 15" x 20.5"  Image Size: 13.5" x 17"  Condition:  very good impression; I see no problems worth mentioning  Price:  $125   #TA13 TE9  Keywords: 2Chronicles3; Exodus