Habes hoc in libro, candide lector Hebraicas Institiones...

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $1,600

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author

PAGNINUS, SANTES

printer

Antone du Ry

Place

Lyons

Publication

1526

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title in red and black within elaborate border. Woodcut of the Author lecturing to his students along with four smaller cuts at head of Book One. Many large historiated woodcut initials throughout, woodcut border on last page. Printed in double columns. Text in Hebrew and Latin

references

Not in Adams; see Porges in his Nachtrage to Steinschneider’s Handbuch (no.1506)

summary

Authoritative text by the eminent Renaissance Hebraist Santes Pagninus (1470-1536). Pagninus was profoundly influenced by the writings of David Kimchi and based this work chiefly on Kimchi’s Michlol

pp.(8),422. Lightly browned and stained, opening two leaves with marginal loss along lower portion, final leaf worn and repaired, censor’s signatures. 18th-century half-vellum over marbled boards, rubbed. 4to

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