LEUSDEN, JOHANNES.
AUCTION 49 |
Wednesday, October 27th,
2010 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art
Lot 207
LEUSDEN, JOHANNES.
Utrecht: Francis Halma 1686
Est: $300 - $500
PRICE REALIZED $150
Johann Leusden (1624-1699) was professor of Hebrew at Utrecht University. He is most famous for having produced, in collaboration with the Amsterdam publisher Joseph Athias, the magnificent Biblia Hebraica (1661) which served as a model for publications of the Bible up to the 19th-century. It has been speculated that Aschkenazic rabbis of Amsterdam took in hand the instruction of Johannes Leusden, a Hebraist of great renown. See EJ, Vol. XI, cols. 63-64; A.L. Katchen, Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis (1984), p. 310, n. 25