Hebrew) Bibliorum Hebraicorum. Prepared by Elias Hutter.
AUCTION 46 |
Thursday, September 10th,
2009 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art
Lot 67
(BIBLE
Hebrew) Bibliorum Hebraicorum. Prepared by Elias Hutter.
Hamburg: Elias Hutter 1596 -1603
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
PRICE REALIZED $1,000
An extraordinarily ambitious feat of scholarship.
“In this edition the root letters are printed in thick type and the inflectional letters in hollow type; and when a root letter in any word does not appear, it is printed in small type above the line.” Darlow & Moule 5108. See also D.S. Berkowitz, In Rememberance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968) no.171. According to Berkowitz and Darlow & Moule, copies of Hutter’s Hebrew Bible originally issued in 1587 were used to form a supplement to the Hamburg Polyglot of 1596 which was also reissued with a new title in 1603. The first title page of this copy is of the reissued 1603 polyglot edition (Quadripartitum Sacrae Scripturae), while the second title remained from the 1596 edition.