De Accentibus et Orthographia, Linguae Hebraicae.

Estimate: $6,000–$8,000
Hammer price: $8,000

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author

REUCHLIN, JOHANNES

printer

Thomas Anshelm

Place

Hagenau

Publication

1518

Description

FIRST EDITION. Large woodcut device on title. Large woodcut printer’s device on recto of final leaf. 3pp. with names of Hebrew accents, lines alternating in red and black, 9pp. musical scores (printed from right to left). Extensive use of Hebrew type.

references

Adams R-380; Benzing 106; Sendrey 2081

summary

Reuchlin’s last, refined work on Hebrew grammar, De Accentibus contains the earliest printed Jewish music, a transcription of the Biblical Hebrew cantallation for four voices. See B. S. Hill, Hebraica from the Valmadonna Trust, (Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989) no. 21.

ff. 83,(5). Few light stains, trace marginal worming on a few leaves neatly repaired. Later vellum. 4to

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