Peirush - Commentarium Hebraicum Rabbi David Kimhi in Decem Primos Psalmos Davidicoscum Versione Latina. [Latin translation of Kimchi’s commentary to the first ten chapters of Psalms]

AUCTION 24 | Tuesday, June 29th, 2004 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg

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Lot 149
KIMCHI, DAVID

Peirush - Commentarium Hebraicum Rabbi David Kimhi in Decem Primos Psalmos Davidicoscum Versione Latina. [Latin translation of Kimchi’s commentary to the first ten chapters of Psalms]

First edition of translation. Twenty one historiated initial panels. pp. 65,[1]. Latin inscription in two paragraphs concerning the author on second opening blank Ex-library. Modern morocco. Folio Vinograd Constanz 3; Mehlman1877; Haberman, Perakim be-Toldoth ha-Madpisim ha-Ivrim, p.166 no. 18.

Constantiae [Konstanz]: Paulus Fagius, 1544

Est: $6,000 - $7,000
PRICE REALIZED $6,000
Only three Hebrew books were published in Konstanz, a port town on the shores of Lake Constance in Baden-Württemberg. In the present volume both text and commentary are in beautifully crafted square letters with vocalization