Kotzer Otzar Leshon Hakodesh - Epitome Thesauri Linguae Sanctae.

AUCTION 72 | Thursday, March 16th, 2017 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art

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PAGNINUS, SANCTES.

Kotzer Otzar Leshon Hakodesh - Epitome Thesauri Linguae Sanctae.

Second Plantin edition. Printer’s device on title. Previous owners’ notations on title page, browned. Later limp vellum, light wear. 8vo. Sorgeloos, Labore et Constantia: 1555-1589 (Brussels, 1990) pp. 341-2.

Antwerp: Christopher Plantin 1578

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $300

This is the second of three Plantin editions of the work (1570, 1578, and 1588). The work was adapted from the dictionary of the Dominican Hebraist Sante Pagnino (Lyon, 1529) by a German-Jewish scholar Isaac Levita, who worked in the employ of Plantin for less than a year 1563-1564.