(The Younger). Lexicon Chaldaicum et Syriacum [Aramaic and Syriac Dictionary]

AUCTION 50 | Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Art

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Lot 68

BUXTORF, JOHANNES

(The Younger). Lexicon Chaldaicum et Syriacum [Aramaic and Syriac Dictionary]

Latin interspersed with Aramaic and Syriac. An early owner has applied to this copy neat vellum tabs arranged in alphabetic order, both in Hebrew and Syriac script. From the Cassuto Collection pp. (20), 640. Heavily browned and wrinkled. Contemporary vellum, worn. 4to

Basle: Ludovici Regis 1622

Est: $300 - $500

Johannes Buxtorf II (or the Younger) (1599-1664) succeeded his father Johannes Buxtorf the Elder in the Chair of Bible and Hebrew Studies at the University of Basle. He translated Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed and Judah Halevi's Kuzari into Latin. See EJ, Vol. IV, col. 1543