Shlosh Esrei Ikrim. Divrei Habayith Hasheini. Eser Gilyoth Yisrael - Tredecim Articuli Fidei Judaeorum (etc.)

AUCTION 5 | Tuesday, June 23rd, 1998 at 1:00

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Lot 233

MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN (Ed).

Shlosh 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 Muenster ff.(182). Corners of opening and closing leaves triffle brittle, trimmed. Modern calf. Sm. 8vo Vinograd, Worms 1-2; Mehlman 1872; Adams M-171

Worms: Petrus Schaeffer 1529

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $5,250

The first - and only - Hebrew Book printed in Worms, legendary home of Rashi. An early edition of Maimonides’ Principles of Jewish Faith - first appeared in the Bible of Felix Pratensis, Venice 1517 - here provided with a translation into Latin by Münster one of the foremost Christian Hebraist scholars of his time