Sententiae Morales - (Alpha-Beita d’Ben Sira)

AUCTION 13 | Tuesday, June 26th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts Together With Fine Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 168

BEN SIRA

Sententiae Morales - (Alpha-Beita d’Ben Sira)

FIRST LATIN EDITION. Hebrew and Latin text. ff. (32). Few light stains, trace foxed in places, marginalia. Reccent vellum backed boards. 8vo Vinograd, Isny 11; Mehlman 1867; not in Adams

Isny: Paulus Fagius 1542

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $1,100

Differing versions of this sophisticated work have been published. This, the FIRST LATIN EDITION, consists of alphabetically arranged aphorisms. Fagius also published the Apocryphal Book of Tobit alsongside the Ben Sira. See A.M. Haberman, Chadashim Gam Yesheinim (1975) p.108 no.2.