POLYGLOT). Biblia Sacra. Genesis-Ruth (All published)

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00

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

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POLYGLOT). Biblia Sacra. Genesis-Ruth (All published)

Title within woodcut border; vignettes of Biblical scenes including the Tree of Knowledge, Noah’s Ark, and the Binding of Isaac. Separate titles for each Book of Bible. Texts arranged in six columns across two pages: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, German, French. Vol. I (Genesis-Leviticus): pp. (16), 287, 239, 409. Vol. II (Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth): pp. 412-851, 319. Foxed and browned in places, few neat marginal repairs. Modern elegantly tooled calf. Thick folio Darlow and Moule 1426; David S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation, pp. 179-80

Nürnberg: for Elias Hutter 1599

Est: $7,000 - $9,000

HUTTER’S HEXAGLOT OLD TESTAMENT. UNCOMMON TO APPEAR AT AUCTION. The Hebrew text employs Hutter’s unique method of combining solid and holow types to help the student identify roots of words. Root letters that are not evident (chaserim) are displayed as superscript above the word. In the words of David S. Berkowitz, “The parade of linguistic learning is short of stupefying” (Remembrance of Creation, p. 104). Hutter produced four issues of his polyglot, with the sixth language differing - (Sloven, Italian, Low German, and French) - depending on the intended audience. The present copy is the French version.