Hebrew). Derech Ha’kodesh-Via Sancta.

AUCTION 53 | Thursday, December 08th, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 49

(BIBLE,

Hebrew). Derech Ha’kodesh-Via Sancta.

Prepared by Elias Hutter. Divisional titles. pp. (6), 1572 (i.e. 1568). Ex-library, lightly browned and few stains in places, opening two leaves, creased, discolored and frayed at margins. Contemporary elaborately tooled vellum over thick wooden boards. Few tears to extremities, rubbed. Clasps and hinges lacking. Seven bands on spine. Thick folio Vinograd, Hamburg 4; Darlow & Moule 5108; Berkowitz no.171

Hamburg: Elias Hutter- Johann Saxon 1587

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

AN IMPORTANT AND UNIQUE BIBLE EDITION. “In this edition the root letters are printed in thick type and the inflectional letters in hollow type; and when a root letter in any word does not appear, it is printed in small type above the line.” Darlow & Moule 5108. “An extraordinarily ambitious feat of scholarship.” See D.S. Berkowitz, In Rememberance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968) no.171.