MONTANUS, BENEDICTUS ARIAS

AUCTION 43 | Thursday, April 02nd, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 191

MONTANUS, BENEDICTUS ARIAS

Antiquitatum Iudaicarum Libri IX. In quis, praeter Iudaeae, Hierosolymorum, & Templi Salomonis accuratam delineationem, praecipui sacri ac profani gentis ritus describuntur [“Antiquities of the Jews, Book IX, in which Judea, Jerusalem and the Temple of Solomon are accurately delineated, especially sacred as well as profane rites are herein described.”] pp. (4), 200. Waterstained. Some underscoring in red. Peeking out of endpapers, pages of an older text. Contemporary vellum, buckled. 4to Ad text: Adams, M-1630; Darlow and Moule 1422 (Vol. 8); cf. Voet I, pp. 280-312 and nr. 584; Typ. Bat. 284; Breugelmans, Leiden imprints, p. 6; IA 107.302. Ad map: Laor, Maps of the Holy Land, 45A, 46A, 945A

Leiden: Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Franciscum Raphelengium 1593

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $1,100

A re-issue of treatises from the scholarly apparatus of Volume VIII of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible, 1572 (otherwise known as Plantin's Polyglot or the Royal Polyglot) relating to the Old Testament and Jewish antiquities, together with the original illustrations and the addition of a large view of the Temple, originally printed in 1576. The Spanish priest and orientalist Benito Arias Montanus (1527-1598), first director of the Escorial Library, was entrusted by King Philip II of Spain with the editing of the second Polyglot Bible. See EJ, Vol. III, cols. 434-435. A comprehensive description of each of the treatises republished here accompanies the Lot