(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

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

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Lot 213

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

HOTTINGER, JOHANN HEINRICH. Cippi Hebraici ["Tombs of the Hebrews]. Hebrew and Latin text with occasional use of Arabic. Four engraved plates (three double-page), one depicting Jewish tombs and monuments, another of ancient Judean coins. ff. 13, pp. 188, ff. 4. [Tobler 71; Freimann, 195]. Heidelberg: Samuel Broun, 1662 * BOUND WITH: LEVITA, ELIJAH BACHUR. Pirkei Eliyahu / Cantica Eliæ [“The Chapters of Elijah”- grammatical essays]. With introduction and translation into Latin by Sebastian Münster. FIRST LATIN EDITION. Hebrew and Latin on facing pages. Printer’s mark on title and repeated on verso of final leaf (Yaari’s Printers' Marks no. 12). Richly historiated initials. ff. (97). [Vinograd, Basle 29; Mehlman 1866; Prijs, Basle 27]. Basle: Johannes Froben, 1527 Trace foxed and stained, some sidebars lost to cropping in second work. Contemporary vellum. 8vo

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

Cippi Hebraici is a Latin translation of Yichus Avoth (Venice, 1575 - no copy extant); a description of the graves of the righteous and of the Holy Places of Eretz Israel. It was composed by Uri ben Shimon of Biala, an emissary of the Aschkenazi Community of Safed. See A. Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael (1977), pp. 80 and 248. The expanded notes in the present edition are of scholarly and archaelogical interest. Within the second work are collected grammatical essays by a celebrated grammarian dealing with phonetics, particles, gender, pronouns and prosody. The first portion, Perek Shirah / Cap. Cantici, provides poetic examples of the grammatical lessons