Hebrew). Derech ha-Kodesh - Via Sancta. Prepared by Elias Hutter. * WITH: Hutter, Elias. Cubus Alphabeticus Sanctae Ebraeae Linguae. ff. (30). [Adams H-1243]. (Hamburg: Jacob Wolf, 1588)

AUCTION 36 | Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 1:00

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Hebrew). Derech ha-Kodesh - Via Sancta. Prepared by Elias Hutter. * WITH: Hutter, Elias. Cubus Alphabeticus Sanctae Ebraeae Linguae. ff. (30). [Adams H-1243]. (Hamburg: Jacob Wolf, 1588)

Divisional titles. On front fly, inscriptions: “Makzereth ahavah me-eth yedidi ha-yakar…Raphael Harari, nethunah nethunah li, Tzvi Mordechai Halevi ben R. Ya’akov Chaim, poh Cantabrigia, Parshath Emor, 5672 [A loving souvenir from my dear friend Raphael Harari, given to me, Tzvi Mordechai Halevi son of R. Ya’akov Chaim, here Cambridge, 1912]; “Va-ani beno nathati eth ha-sepher matanah li-b’nei Carmel, beith ha-sepher de-al nehar Thames, samuch le-Wallingford ha-ir, be-yom daleth le-Parshath Beshalach, yom teth le-chodesh Shevat, shenath Shemern Zayith li-beri’ath olam [And I, his son, have given the book as a gift to the students of Carmel College on the River Thames, close to the city of Wallingford, on Wednesday, Parshath Beshalach, on the ninth day of Shevat in the year 5717 A.M. (1957 C.E.)] pp. (7), 1572 (i.e. 1568). Light waterstains. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, spine in compartments, rubbed. Thick folio Vinograd, Hamburg 4; Darlow & Moule 5108; Berkowitz no.171

Hamburg: Elias Hutter- Johann Saxon 1587

Est: $7,000 - $9,000

PRICE REALIZED $7,000

“In this edition the root letters are printed in thick type and the inflectional letters in hollow type; and when a root letter in any word does not appear, it is printed in small type above the line.” Darlow & Moule 5108. “An extraordinarily ambitious feat of scholarship.” See D.S. Berkowitz, In Rememberance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968), no.171. Provenance: Given as a gift by Ralph Harari to Herbert Loewe of Cambridge in 1912. Loewe’s son, Raphael James Loewe gifted the book to Carmel College, Wallingford in 1957. Regarding the now defunct Carmel College, founded by Rabbi Kopul Rosen in 1948 and once the pride of Anglo-Jewry, see EJ, Vol. VI, cols. 450 and 419 (photo of the modernist architecture designed by Nehemiah Azzaz)