Kotzer Otzar Leshon Hakodesh - Epitome Thesauri Linguae Sanctae.

AUCTION 87 | Thursday, January 16th, 2020 at 1:00pm
"K2" Online Sale: Hebrew & Judaic Printed Books

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Lot 228
PAGNINUS, SANCTES.

Kotzer Otzar Leshon Hakodesh - Epitome Thesauri Linguae Sanctae.

Second Plantin edition. Printer’s device on title. pp. (16), 447, (9); pp. 113-4 torn out. Previous owners’ marks on title page, browned. Later limp died vellum, light wear. 8vo. Sorgeloos, Labore et Constantia: 1555-1589 (Brussels, 1990) pp. 341-2.

Antwerp: Christopher Plantin 1578

Est: $200 - $300
PRICE REALIZED $150
This is the second of three Plantin editions of the work (1570, 1578, and 1588). The work was adapted from the dictionary of the Dominican Hebraist Sante Pagnino (Lyon, 1529) by a German-Jewish scholar named Isaac Levita, who worked in the employ of Plantin for less than a year 1563-64.