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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.

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References

  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20160426174038/http://forward.com/culture/4012/from-the-dawn-of-printing-why-rare-hebrew-manuscri/
  2. ^ Rosemarie Erika Horch (1987). "Zur Frage des ersten in portugiesischer Sprache gedruckten Buches". Gutenberg-Jahrbuch. 62: 125–134.
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