Hebrew). Bibliorum Hebraicorum

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

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

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Lot 62

(BIBLE

Hebrew). Bibliorum Hebraicorum

Prepared by Elias Hutter. Divisional titles (lacking front title, text complete) pp. (6), 1572. As stated in the French handwritten note of the previous owner, the border of the first divisional title of Neviim Rishonim is bound at the front before the introduction, with the text pasted on the blank before the text of Former Prophets. Very rubbed and chipped. 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 (1960) pp. 29-39

Hamburg: Elias Hutter (1587)

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

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.” See D.S. Berkowitz, In Rememberance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968) no.171.