(The Elder). Lexicon Chaldaicum, Talmudicum et Rabbinicum [Aramaic, Talmudic, and Rabbinic dictionary]

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Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art Including Holy Land Maps, Illustrated Books, Photography and Graphic Art from The Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg of Greenwich, Conn

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Lot 44

Buxtorf, Johannes

(The Elder). Lexicon Chaldaicum, Talmudicum et Rabbinicum [Aramaic, Talmudic, and Rabbinic dictionary]

Additional, elaborately engraved title-page, engraved frontispiece portrait of Buxtorf. ff. (8), 2680 columns; ff. (32). Secondary title torn with loss of text. Foxed. Contemporary vellum with central motif. Spine distressed.Thick folio Prijs, Basle 237 (illustrated on pp. 366-7)

Basle: 1639

Est: $500 - $700

Johannes Buxtorf I (or the Elder) (1564-1629) served as professor of Hebrew at the University of Basle. For all of his immense learning in Bible and rabbinics, he could not be dissuaded from a negative attitude toward the Jews. His colossal Lexicon Chaldaicum Talmudicum was completed by his son. Though unreliable, it served coming generations of Christian scholars as a guide to their Jewish studies. EJ IV, col.1543.