(GRAMMAR / BIBLE).

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 108

(GRAMMAR / BIBLE).

Several early sixteenth-century works of Grammar and Biblical exegesis bound in single volume: Aurogallus (Goldhahn), Mattheus. Compendium Hebreae Grammatices (Wittemberg, n.d.). Latin interspersed with vocalized Hebrew. ff. (32). Title within richly historiated surround. On final page exotic woodcut of mermaid. [Not in Adams; EJ, Vol. VIII, col. 22]. * Munster, Sebastian. Epitome Hebraicae Grammaticae (Basle: Johann Froben, 1520). Latin interspersed with vocalized Hebrew. On title, printer's mark of Froben: two serpents coiled around a rod with a bird perched on top (see Yaari, Hebrew Printer's Marks 12). ff.(32). [Prijs 11b; not in Adams]. * Sebastianus, Augustus Nouzanus (Nuzenus). De Literarum, Vocum, et Accentuum Haebraicorum (Marburg: Franciscus Rhodus, 1532). Latin interspersed with Hebrew. Includes 2pp. musical notation of "trop" (Hebrew cantillation marks). (Cf. Prijs, pp. 28-29.) ff. (96). [Adams, S-828; St. 7159]. * Kimchi, Moses. Sepher Dikduk. With commentary of Elia Levita and Latin translation by Sebastian Munster. (Basle: Andrea Cratander 1531). Hebrew text following Hebrew title, reads right to left; Latin translation following Latin title, reads left to right. ff. (8); pp. 51, (1), ff.(46). Worming in text. [Vinograd, Basle 36; Prijs 33; Adams 58]. * Books of Joel and Malachi with commentary of R. David Kimchi. Appended: Teruphath ha-Choli Ruchani(th) [“The Cure for Spiritual Illness”] by Judah Alcharizi. Edited by Sebastian Munster. (Basle: Henricus Petri, 1530). FIRST EDITION Teruphath ha-Choli Ruchani(th). Biblical texts in Hebrew with nikud (vowel points) followed by unvocalized commentary. On final page, printer's mark of Petri: a hammer striking a rock (see Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 11). ff.(60). [Vinograd, Basle 35; Prijs 31; not in Adams]. * Commentary of R. David Kimchi to Book of Amos. Prefaced by letter of Elia Levita concerning the Masorah and script. Latin introduction by Editor Sebastian Munster. (Basel: Henricus Petri, 1531). Letter of Levita and Commentary in unvocalized Hebrew. On final page, printer's mark of Petri. ff.(72). [Vinograd, Basle 38; Prijs 34; Adams 43] Vinograd erroneously gives foliation as ff.(36). * Kinoth (ha-)Yirmiyah / Lamentations. Appended: From Ninth Chapter of Daniel (Daniel IX, 4-19). Edited by Philippus Melanchton. (n.p., n.d). Hebrew with nikud (vowel points). ff.(15). [Not found in bibliographic works consulted] Numerous Latin marginalia. Blind-tooled vellum with metallic hinges, spine in compartments, rubbed. 8vo

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