Hebrew) Bibliorum Hebraicorum. Prepared by Elias Hutter

AUCTION 37 | Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 26

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Hebrew) Bibliorum Hebraicorum. Prepared by Elias Hutter

Title page printed in red and black with large woodcut crest on verso. Fine detailed additional engraved title depicting biblical scenes. Divisional titles pp. (9), 1572. Taped repairs on title, introduction, the first leaf and final leaves of biblical text, worn. Wax seal on title. With signature and stamp of J. Eiger, Warsaw, and the library of the Warsaw Synagogue of Tlomacka Street. Modern full calf. Thick folio Vinograd, Hamburg 6; Darlow & Moule 5108; Berkowitz no.171; H. Z. Zafren, “Elias Hutter’s Hebrew Bibles” in The Joshua Bloch Memorial Volume, N.Y. 1960, pp. 29-39

Hamburg: Elias Hutter 1596 -1603

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

An extraordinarily ambitious feat of scholarship. “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. See also D.S. Berkowitz, In Rememberance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968) no.171. According to Berkowitz and Darlow & Moule, copies of Hutter’s Hebrew Bible originally issued in 1587 were used to form a supplement to the Hamburg Polyglot of 1596 which was also reissued with a new title in 1603. The first title page of this copy is of the reissued 1603 polyglot edition (Quadripartitum Sacrae Scripturae), while the second title remained from the 1596 edition