Otzar Lashon Hakodesh-Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae sive Lexicon Hebraicum

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

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

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Lot 180

PAGNINUS, SANTES

Otzar Lashon Hakodesh-Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae sive Lexicon Hebraicum

Printer’s device Trace wormed, few stains. Contemporary limp vellum, worn, small portion of upper cover with loss. Thick folio Adams P-41

Lyons: Antonio Gryphius 1577

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $375

Complete in 3188 columns, a massive reworking of David Kimchi’s Michlol and Shoroshim. The Author Santes Pagnini (or Xanthus Pagninus) (1470-1536), an Italian Dominican friar, was considered one of the greatest Christian Hebraists of the age. See C. Roth, Jews in the Renaissance (1959) 146f.; EJ, Vol. XIII, cols. 13-14.