Year of print of an edition of Torah

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Sorry if this is off topic. I got an edition of Torah, printed in London, and which has the Hebrew text accompanied by translation to German, printed in gothic characters. The year of the edition is written as follows:

"נדפס בעיר הבירה לונדן בשנת אשרי אדם מצא חכמה ואדם יפיק תבונה לפ''ק"

I attach the image of the front page. Could someone help to determine its year of print? Thank you, and again sorry if this is off topic.

Usually you add up the gematria of the letters marked with a supralinear dot — Double AA, Jun 16 '23 at 19:05

Chatzkel · Answer 1 · 2023-06-16T20:29:00.810

5

Although usually one would add up the letters that have a dot on top. However in this case that would put the year in the future. Therefore, it looks like you add up the letters, not counting the ones with a dot on top.

This adds up to 596. The letters at the end of לפ״ק indicates that it’s only counting the smaller number not the thousands (פרט קטן). It is safe to assume it is in the 5,000’s so it would be the year 5,596 which corresponds to 1836

edited Jun 16 '23 at 20:29

answered Jun 16 '23 at 19:05

Chatzkel

12,714
7
32

Marginally more likely than the future is the past 4878 – Double AA Jun 16 '23 at 20:45
That’s more than 300 years before the printing press was invented – Chatzkel Jun 16 '23 at 20:50
And more than 800 years before time machines were – Double AA Jun 16 '23 at 21:01

Year of print of an edition of Torah

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