Opusculum Recens Hebraicum… Sepher ha-Tishbi [lexicon of Hebrew words in the Talmud, Midrash and Hebrew of the Middle-Ages]

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Lot 145

LEVITA, ELIJAH BACHUR.

Opusculum Recens Hebraicum… Sepher ha-Tishbi [lexicon of Hebrew words in the Talmud, Midrash and Hebrew of the Middle-Ages]

<<FIRST EDITION>> . Text in Hebrew and Latin with numerous words in Yiddish and Judaeo Italian. Wide margins. Hebrew and Latin marginalia. pp. (24), 271 (i.e. 378), (5). Mispaginated, lightly browned. 18th-century calf, rebacked. 4to. Vinograd, Isny 9; Steinschneider, Bibl. Handbuch, no. 1167 (sehr selten).

Isny: Paulus Fagius 1541

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

This copy has eleven more introductory pages than recorded by Vinograd. A typically thorough linguistic investigation by a remarkable Hebrew philologist. Provenance: The Library of Salman Schocken. Sold at Sotheby’s, Important Hebrew Books from the Library of… Salman Schocken, London, 6th December 1993, Lot 256.