Maphte’ach Leshon ha-Kodesh - That is the Key of the Holy Tongue

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

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

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Lot 219

UDALL (Uvedale), JOHN

Maphte’ach Leshon ha-Kodesh - That is the Key of the Holy Tongue

FIRST EDITION. English interspersed with vocalized Hebrew. Three parts in one (including a short dictionary). Printer’s device on title. On blank before Pt. III, inscription of former owner: "William Oatis. April 26th 1791. Pembrokeshire, South Wales." Scattered marginalia pp. 204, (2), 174, (2), 98 (pp. 97-98 bound out of sequence), (4). Ex-library. Old tape repair of title. Browned. Contemporary calf, scuffed, rebacked. Sm. 8vo Vinograd, Leiden 14; Fuks, Leiden 10

Leiden: Franciscus Raphelengius 1593

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $1,800

First Hebrew Grammar Printed in the English Language. Based on the Latin grammar prepared by Petrus Martinius, Udall’s valuable work was posthumously published by Raphelengius, son-in-law of the great Antwerp printer, Christopher Plantin. “Far into the eighteenth century the language in which...Hebrew manuals were produced was Latin. [Udall’s work is the] only extant example of a Hebrew grammar written in English from the whole of the Tudor period.” G. Lloyd Jones, The Discovery of Hebrew in Tudor England (1983), p. 257