(alias Canossa). Hebraicarum literaum regii interpretis, de modo legendi haebraice: dialogus.

AUCTION 75 | Thursday, March 08th, 2018 at 1:00 PM

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PARADISUS, PAULUS

(alias Canossa). Hebraicarum literaum regii interpretis, de modo legendi haebraice: dialogus.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Latin interspersed with Hebrew. Printer’s device on title and last page. ff. (16). Few light stains. Recent limp vellum. 8vo.

Venice:

Est: $1,200 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

This rare, early Hebrew primer by a converted Jew of the Venetian Del Banco family, takes the literary form of a dialogue between two fictional characters, Martialis and his son Matthaeus. Among the works cited in the text are Reuchlin’s De Arte de Cabbalistica and Galatino’s De Arcanis. See S. Simonsohn, The Apostolic See and the Jews (1991) pp. 273-4.