Sefer HaShorashim / Liber Radicum seu Lexicon Ebraicum, in quo omnium Vocabulorum Biblicorum

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

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Lot 109

AVENARIUS, JOHANNES

Sefer HaShorashim / Liber Radicum seu Lexicon Ebraicum, in quo omnium Vocabulorum Biblicorum

Latin interspersed with Hebrew. On title, Psalm 25:21 in Hebrew and vignette of the Anointment of King David by Samuel. Similar scene occupies full length of final page pp. (16), 860 (i.e., 870), (1), (1 blank). Some foxing. Later calf, worn. Thick folio Adams A-2306

Wittemberg: Heirs of Johann Craton 1588-89

Est: $600 - $800

PRICE REALIZED $650

A “Book of Roots,” Hebrew-Latin dictionary and concordance of Bible. The author, Lutheran Hebraist Johann Habermann (Latin, Avenarius) (1516-90) was for a period of time Professor of Theology in Wittemberg.