Ed.) Shelosh Esrei Ikrim. Divrei HaBayith HaSheini. Eser Gilyoth Yisrael - Tredecim Articuli Fidei Judaeorum (etc).

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MüNSTER, SEBASTIAN

Ed.) Shelosh Esrei Ikrim. Divrei HaBayith HaSheini. Eser Gilyoth Yisrael - Tredecim Articuli Fidei Judaeorum (etc).

<<FIRST LATIN EDITION.>> Hebrew and Latin on facing pages. Translated by Sebastian Münster. Printer’s device at end. Latin marginalia in an early hand. ff. (182). Trace foxed, small marginal tear on f.159, otherwise a good copy. Later vellum. 12mo. Vinograd, Worms 1-2.

Worms: Petrus Schoeffer 1529

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $6,000

<<The first - and only - Hebrew Book printed in Worms>> (Rhineland-Palatinate), the famed hometown of Rashi. Includes an early edition of Maimonides’ Principles of Jewish Faith, here provided with a translation into Latin by Münster one of the foremost Christian Hebraist scholars of his time.