Sefer ha-Shorashim / Liber Radicum…Lexicon Ebraicum, in quo omnium vocabulorum biblicorum []

AUCTION 23 | Tuesday, March 30th, 2004 at 1:00

Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews College Library, London The Third Portion

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AVENARIUS, JOHANNES

Sefer ha-Shorashim / Liber Radicum…Lexicon Ebraicum, in quo omnium vocabulorum biblicorum []

On title, Psalm 25:21 in Hebrew and vignette of anointment of David by Samuel. Similar scene occupies full length of final page. Opposite p.1 lengthy scholarly note in English ff. (16), 860, (1). Minor repairs and staining. Modern boards.Thick folio Adams 2306

Wittemberg: Johann Craton 1589

Est: $600 - $900

A “Book of Roots,” Hebrew-Latin Dictionary and Concordance of Bible. The Author, Lutheran Hebraist Johann Habermann (Latin, Avenarius) (1516-1590) was for a period of time Professor of Theology in Wittemberg