Hebraicas Institutiones

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

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

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Lot 130

PAGNINUS, SANTES

Hebraicas Institutiones

FIRST EDITION. Four Books in single volume. Volume reads right to left, Latin interspersed with vocalized Hebrew. Title in red and black within elaborate border. Woodcut of the Author lecturing to his students along with four smaller cuts at beginning of Book One. Many large historiated woodcut initials throughout, woodcut border on last page. Printed in double columns pp.(16), 421, (1). Occasionally browned and stained, former owner’s inscription atop colophon. Recent vellum with cloth ties. 4to Freimann, p. 74; not in Steinschneider nor Adams

Lyons: Antoniu[m] du Ry 1526

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,600

The Italian Hebraist Santes Pagninus (1470-1536) was taught by a Spanish-Jewish convert to Catholicism, Clement Abraham. Pagnini’s Hebrew grammar was chiefly based on David Kimchi’s Michlol and was widely consulted in the sixteenth century. See EJ, Vol. XIII, cols. 13-14.