Auction 10 · Lot 148

Sepher Hadikduk-Grammatica Hebraica. Hebrew with Latin on facing pages prepared by Sebastian Muenster.

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,500

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author

LEVITA, ELIJAH BACHUR.

printer

J. Froben

Place

Basle

Publication

1525

Description

FIRST EDITION. Printer’s device on opening and closing pages. The Wolf Heidenheim Copy, With His Signature in a neat cursive Hebrew hand on title-page. Opening paste-down with initials “W.H.”

references

Vinograd, Basle 16 (JNUL copy incomplete); Prijs, Basle 18; Adams E-114

summary

A typically thorough linguistic investigation by a exceptional Hebrew philologist. A Remarkable Association Copy. Uniting Levita (1468-1549) and Heidenheim (1757-1832), two of the Greatest Scholars of the Hebrew Language, Across Three Centuries. In addition to his celebrity for his most exacting liturgies, Heidenheim “devoted great care to typographical setup as well as to the restoration of the correct text of the prayers. “ (EJ). With this objective he naturally drew on early texts, heavily relying on Levita’s materials. Heidenheim himself made major contributions to the field of Masoretic studies.

ff.(200). Inner margin trace wormed, otherwise a clean copy. Later boards. 8vo

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