Farrago annotationum in Genesi. Edited by Leo Juda and Caspar Megander

AUCTION 47 | Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 1:00

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Lot 287

ZWINGLI, ULRICH.

Farrago annotationum in Genesi. Edited by Leo Juda and Caspar Megander

FIRST EDITION. Historiated title and printers' device at end. Latin interspersed with Hebrew. Scattered scholarly marginalia in Latin and Hebrew pp. (2), 491, (1 of 3). Dampstained, title discolored. Old underscoring. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, dentelles, worn. 8vo

Zurich: Christophor Froschouer 1527

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $600

Zwingli (1484-1531) was the leader of the Reformation in Switzerland. Leo Jud(a) (1482-1542), a Christian Hebraist of Alsatian origin, is famed for his Swiss-German translation of the Bible, which resulted in the Zurich Bible (1527-29) of the Swiss Reformed Church. See EJ, Vol. IV, col. 873; Vol. VIII, col. 39