De Synagoga Vetere.

AUCTION 62 | Thursday, June 26th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 162

VITRING, CAMPEGIUS.

De Synagoga Vetere.

Text in Latin with numerous passages in Greek and Hebrew. Engraved frontispiece depicts gentiles visiting the Temple of Jerusalem in fulfillment of the prophecy in Zechariah 8:22-3. Title in red and black. pp. (56), 1140, (32). Foxed. Contemporary vellum, spine starting. Thick 4to. Freimann, p. 181.

Weissenfels (Saxony-Anhalt): F. Wehrmann 1726

Est: $300 - $400

On the ancient synagogue and development of the early Church by the Dutch Calvinist Campegius Vitringa (1659-1722), Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Franeker. See JE, Vol. XII, p. 445.