(Ed.) Shlosh Esrei Ikrim. Divrei Habayith Hasheini. Eser Galuyoth Yisrael - Tredecim Articuli Fidei Judaeorum (etc.)

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 178

MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN.

(Ed.) Shlosh Esrei Ikrim. Divrei Habayith Hasheini. Eser Galuyoth Yisrael - Tredecim Articuli Fidei Judaeorum (etc.)

FIRST LATIN EDITION. Hebrew and Latin on facing pages. Translated by Sebastian Muenster. Woodcut printers’ device on verso of final leaf ff.(182). Trace foxed, A few small wormholes, otherwise a good copy. Later vellum. 12mo Vinograd, Worms 1-2; Mehlman 1872; Adams M-171

Worms: Petrus Schaeffer 1529

Est: $6,000 - $7,000

The first - and only - Hebrew Book printed in Worms, legendary home of the great expositor, Rashi. An early edition of Maimonides’ Principles of Jewish Faith (it first appeared in the Bible of Felix Pratensis, Venice 1517) - here provided with a translation into Latin by Münster, one of the foremost Christian Hebraist scholars of his time