Ochlah Ve-Ochlah. edited from a manuscript discovered in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, by F. Frensdorff

AUCTION 49 | Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art

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Lot 226
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Ochlah Ve-Ochlah. edited from a manuscript discovered in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, by F. Frensdorff

pp. iv, 187, xiv, 71, 1. Original boards with elaborate gilt crest on cover. 4to

Hannover: 1864

Est: $100 - $150
PRICE REALIZED $75
One of the earliest collections of Masoretic notes to the Bible text. The supreme Hebrew philologist Jonah ibn Janach (first half of the 11th century) considered Ochlah Ve-Ochlah to be the most important work on the subject. Indeed, most of the masoretic scholarship found in the 1524 Bomberg edition of the Bible was culled from this anonymous work. See EJ, Vol. XII col. 1353