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

AUCTION 11 | Tuesday, November 28th, 2000 at 1:00
Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 106
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. Woodcut printers’ device on verso of final leaf ff.(182). Trace foxed, small marginal tear on f.159, otherwise a good copy. Later vellum. 12mo Vinograd, Worms 1-2; Mehlman 1872; Adams M-171

Worms: Petrus Schaeffer 1529

Est: $6,000 - $7,000
PRICE REALIZED $7,500
The first - and only - Hebrew Book printed in Worms, legendary home of the great expositor, 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