Joannem Ab Incarnatione. Dikduk Leshon HaKedoshah / Grammatica Linguae Sancta.

AUCTION 55 | Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 1:00

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

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Joannem Ab Incarnatione. Dikduk Leshon HaKedoshah / Grammatica Linguae Sancta.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Latin interspersed with fully vocalized Hebrew. pp. (8), 4, 549, (1 blank). Lightly browned. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. 4to.

Coimbra: Typis Academiae 1789

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $550

Rare Hebrew grammar printed in Portugal. It might strike one as ironic that at the height of the Inquisition, when Portugal had been purged of Judaism, the Hebrew language - “the sacred tongue” - was studied by Catholic theologians at the prestigious University of Coimbra. WorldCat shows but a single copy of this book, located in the Sterling Library, Yale University.