Shilush Leshonoth / Dictionarium Trilingue

AUCTION 34 | Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 1:00

Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.

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Lot 128

Muenster, Sebastian.

Shilush Leshonoth / Dictionarium Trilingue

Columns ruled in red. On final page, mark of Henricus Petri (see Ya’ari, Hebrew Printers’ Marks, no. 11) pp. 238, (1). Slight staining. Later mottled calf, gilt extra. Sm. folio Vinograd, Basle 34; Prijs 32

Basle: Henricus Petri 1530

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $900

A Trilingual Dictionary: Latin-Greek-Hebrew. One of the very first Hebrew books printed at the press of Henricus Petri. Muenster (1489-1552), a pupil of the Jewish grammarian Elijah Levita, was considered the foremost Christian Hebraist of his day. See related article by I.I.J. Rosenthal, Sebastian Muenster’s Knowledge and Use of Jewish Exegisis, in: Essays in Honour of J.H. Hertz (1943), pp.351-69