Maphte’ach Lashon Hakodesh - That is the Key of the Holy Tongue

Estimate

$2,000–$2,500

Hammer price

Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

UDALL (Uvedale), JOHN

printer

Franciscus Raphelengius

Place

Leiden

Publication

1593

Description

FIRST EDITION. Three parts in one (including a short dictionary). Printer’s device on title

references

Vinograd, Leiden 14; Fuks, Leiden 10

summary

The first Hebrew Grammar printed in the English language. Based on the Latin grammar prepared by Petrus Martinius. Udall’s valuable work was posthumously published by Raphelengius, son-in-law of the great Antwerp printer, Christopher Plantin. “Far into the eighteenth century the language in which...Hebrew manuals were produced was Latin. [Udall’s work is the] only extant example of a Hebrew grammar written in English from the whole of the Tudor period.” G. Lloyd Jones, The Discovery of Hebrew in Tudor England (1983) p.257

Title remargined, worm-tracks along lower blank margins, browned. Modern calf. Sm. 8vo

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