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AUCTION 34 | Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 1:00

Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.

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Shir ha-Shirim ve-Koheleth / Cantica Canticorum & Ecclesiastes Salomonis [song of Songs and Ecclesiastes]. Aramaic Targum and Latin translation face `a face. Appended: Ma’amar Kinah [Elegy of Erasmus Oswald Schreckenfuchs for his master Sebastian Muenster]. Hebrew only pp. (16), 285, (1), (1 blank), (1), (4 blank), (52). Holes in pp.149-154 repaired with some loss. Former owners’ stamp and inscriptions. Contemporary vellum. 8vo Vinograd, Basle 88; Prijs 90; Adams S-731; not in Darlow and Moule

Basle: Henricus Petri 1553

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $650

Schreckenfuchs (1511-1575) was a mathematician and professor of Hebrew language at the University of Freiburg, Germany. The elegist recounts that the void left by the death of Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522), in terms of Christian Hebraic scholarship, was filled by Sebastian Muenster. He also praises the enormous contributions made by Elijah Levita