(LEUVEN).

AUCTION 61 |
Wednesday, March 12th,
2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects
Lot 177
(LEUVEN).
Leuven (Louvain): Theod. Martinum of Alost 1528 and 1529
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
<<Two exceptionally rare Hebrew works printed in Leuven>> , capital of the Province of Flemish-Brabant, Belgium. The first work entirely unknown to Vinograd; the second work, printed a year later, Vinograd records as being the first and only Hebrew book printed in Leuven.
Nicolaus Clenardus (Cleynaerts or Clenard) was a Flemish Christian Hebraist who lived c. 1495-1542. He was a professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the oldest Catholic university still in existence, founded in 1425.