Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae / Otzar Leshon Hakodesh

AUCTION 69 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects

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PAGNINUS, SANCTES.

Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae / Otzar Leshon Hakodesh

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Hebrew and Latin text. Title surrounded by 16 elaborately engraved vignettes of wise men of the ages (i.e.: Aristotle, Plato, King Solomon, Socrates, Pythagoras, etc). Printed in double columns. Printer’s device on final page. pp. (16), (688) or: 2752 cols., (4). Previous owner’s notations, trace worn and lightly foxed, few minor worhholes. 17th-century calf, worn and scuffed. Thick folio. Adam P-36; Freimann, p. 90

Lyon: Sebastian Gryphius 1529

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,300

First edition of this masterpiece, a massive reworking of R. David Kimchi’s Sepher HaShorashim (Book of Roots). Santes Pagnini (or, Xanthus Pagninus, 1470-1536), an Italian Dominican friar, was considered one of the greatest Christian Hebraists of his time.