Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum

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

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Lot 81

BUXTORF, JOHANNES

Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum

Divisional title after p. 870, Lexicon Breve Rabbinico-Phillosophicum pp. 976, ff. 36. Previous owners' signatures on title, front and back flyleaves. Modern boards. 8vo Prijs 246

Basle: Ludwig Konigs 1645

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $150

Johannes Buxtorf I (or the Elder) (1564-1629) served as Professor of Hebrew at the University of Basle. According to Moritz Kayserling, he was the “principal founder of Rabbinical study among Christian scholars” (JE, vol. 3, p. 444). His Lexicon served generations of Christian scholars as a guide to their studies in Talmud and Rabbinics