Derech HaKodesh. Prepared by Elias Hutter. * BOUND WITH: Hutter, Elias. Cubus Alphabeticus Sanctae Ebraeae Linguae. ff. (30). [Adams H-1243]. (Hamburg: Jacob Wolf, 1588).

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

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Lot 31
(BIBLE Hebrew).

Derech HaKodesh. Prepared by Elias Hutter. * BOUND WITH: Hutter, Elias. Cubus Alphabeticus Sanctae Ebraeae Linguae. ff. (30). [Adams H-1243]. (Hamburg: Jacob Wolf, 1588).

Divisional titles. ff. (6), pp. 1572 (i.e. 1568), ff. (30). Modern vellum. Thick folio in slipcase. Vinograd, Hamburg 4.

Hamburg: Elias Hutter- Johann Saxon 1587

Est: $5,000 - $6,000
PRICE REALIZED $4,500
“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.