Juris Hebraeorum Leges CCLXI

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00

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Lot 244

HOTTINGER, JOHANN HEINRICH.

Juris Hebraeorum Leges CCLXI

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Hebrew and Latin text pp. (12), 401, (13). Browned and stained. Contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards, rubbed. Sm. 4to. Freimann 140; Fuerst I, 414.

Zürich: Joh. Jacob Bodmer 1655

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $850

Swiss Protestant theologian and Hebraist, Hottinger (1620-67) was one of the founders of modern Oriental linguistics and Bible exegesis (see EJ VIII, col. 1047). The present work examines the 261 precepts that are expounded upon in the Aaron Halevi’s Sepher HaChinuch.