Mikneh Avram-Peculium Abrae.
AUCTION 69 |
Thursday, June 23rd,
2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects
Lot 39
BALMES, ABRAHAM DE.
Mikneh Avram-Peculium Abrae.
Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1523
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,300
Distinguished in many fields, de Balmes served as physician to Cardinal Grimani of Venice and lecturered at the University of Padua where he attained renown as an Aristotelian. Greatly valued by contemporary Christian Hebraists, de Balmes prepared this grammar at the urging of the printer Daniel Bomberg, with whom a deep friendship was shared. The work appeared in two issues, with and without a Latin translation. Heinrich Graetz in his Geschichte (vol. IX, 215) has attempted to suggest that the translation was prepared by Bomberg himself. See D. Amram, the Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy (1909) pp. 169-7.