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 179

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 Judeo-Italian. Wide margins. Hebrew and Latin marginalia. <<The Salman Schocken copy.>> pp. (24), 271 (i.e. 378), (5). Mispaginated, lightly browned. 17th-century tree-calf, rebacked. 4to. Vinograd, Isny 9; Steinschneider, Bibl. Handbuch, no. 1167 (sehr selten).

Isny: Paulus Fagius 1541

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,200

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