Steinschneider, Moritz. Die Hebraeischen Uebersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher.

AUCTION 7 | Tuesday, June 22nd, 1999 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 338
(BIBLIOGRAPHY).

Steinschneider, Moritz. Die Hebraeischen Uebersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher.

FIRST EDITION. One of 300 unnumbered copies 34, 1077 pp. Original boards, covers extensively, but neatly reinforced with black tape. Thick 4to Shunami 1215

Berlin: 1893

Est: $100 - $150
PRICE REALIZED $225
No doubt Steinschneider’s magnum opus, delineating how Hebrew and Arabic thinkers were the medium by which classical Greek learning was transmitted to Western thought, and the continuing role of Semitic writers in the spread of ideas during the Middle Ages