Dikduk...Sepher Habachur

AUCTION 3 | Tuesday, November 25th, 1997 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Printed Books Duplicates from the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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Lot 149

LEVITA, ELIJAH BACHUR BEN ASHER HALEVI ASCHKENAZI

Dikduk...Sepher Habachur

Second edition. The Mayer Sulzberger copy pp. 102, (1). Natural paper fault on ff.5:2-4 affecting couple letters. Lightly stained. 19th-century half-morocco over marbled boards. 4to Vinograd, Isny 13; Mehlman, 1232; Adams E-117

Isny (Bavaria): P(aulus) F(agius) 1542

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $750

Grammatical treatise written at the request of the liberal and enlightened Pope Leo X, and first published in Rome in1518. This expanded edition is divided into 52 sections (corresponding to the numerical value of the Author’s first name) and discusses such issues as as the nature of Hebrew verbs, the changes in the vowel-points of the different conjugations and regular and irregular nouns. A typically thorough linguistic investigation by a remarkable Hebrew philologist. See Amram, pp. 236-41