Pirkai Eliyahu-Cantica Eliæ [“The Chapters of Elijah”- grammatical essays]. With introduction and translation into Latin by Sebastian Münster.

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LEVITA, ELIJAH BACHUR.

Pirkai 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 Printer’s Marks no. 12). Scattered Latin and Hebrew marginalia. ff. (98). Some staining. Recent half-morocco. 8vo. Vinograd, Basle 29; Mehlman 1866; Prijs, Basle 27; not in Adams.

Basle: Johannes Froben 1527

Est: $500 - $700

Collected grammatical essays by this celebrated grammarian dealing with phonetics, particles, gender pronouns and prosody. The first part, Perek Shira-Cap. Cantici, provides poetic examples of the grammatical lessons.