Biblia Sacra. Genesis-Ruth (All published).
AUCTION 68 |
Thursday, April 07th,
2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art
Lot 245
(BIBLE, POLYGLOT).
Biblia Sacra. Genesis-Ruth (All published).
Nuremburg: for Elias Hutter 1599
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
<<Hutter’s hexaglot Bible, an extraordinarily ambitious feat of scholarship.>>
The Hebrew text employs Hutter’s unique method of combining solid and hollow types to help the reader identify the roots of each individual word. Root letters that are not evident (chaserim) are displayed as superscript above the word.
Hutter produced four issues of his polyglot, with the sixth language differing - Sloven, Italian, Low-German, and French - depending on the intended audience.
In the words of David S. Berkowitz, “The parade of linguistic learning is short of stupefying” (Remembrance of Creation, p. 104).