Kotzer Otzar Leshon Hakodesh - Epitome Thesauri Linguae Sanctae

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Lot 193

PAGNINUS, SANCTES

Kotzer Otzar Leshon Hakodesh - Epitome Thesauri Linguae Sanctae

Printer’s device (golden compasses) on title. In Latin. D. H. de Castro copy. Several signatures on title: “Gomes,” “Bends,” “Adams.” On final page, signature of previous owner: “John Shane.” pp.(16),447, (8). Some browning. Recased in later vellum. 8vo.

Antwerp: Christopher Plantin 1578

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $400

Dictionary of Hebrew. This is the second of three Plantin editions of the work (1570, 1578, and 1588). The work was adapted from the dictionary of the Dominican Hebraist Sante Pagnino (Lyon, 1529) by a German-Jewish scholar Isaac Levita, who worked in the employ of Plantin for less than a year 1563-1564. See Sorgeloos, Labore et Constantia: 1555-1589 (Brussels, 1990), pp. 341-342.