Libri Antiguitatum * Queaestionum et solutionum in Genesin * De Essaeis * De Nominibus Hebraicis * De Mundo

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

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author

PHILO JUDAEUS

printer

Adam Petri

Place

Basle

Publication

1527

Description

Five works in one. FIRST LATIN EDITION. Printers’ device on title and repeated on verso of final unnumbered leaf (cf.Yaari Printers’ Marks no. 11). Initial letters within historiated woodcut vignettes by Hans Holbein. Book plate of Joáo de Villanova de Vasconcellos Corréa de Barros.

references

Adams P-1031

summary

Group of five works by the Jewish philosopher of antiquity, Philo. The most notable work of the group is Queaestionum et solutionum in Genesin - Questions and Answers on Genesis, a work in the form of a Hellenistic commentary, wherein each paragraph is headed by an exegetic question, answered by a short literal and lengthy allegorical explanation. The other works are digests of Philo’s writings

pp. (8),142,(2). Few light stains in places, gently damp-wrinkled, trace marginal worming. Later gilt-tooled morocco, gilt-titled within central tooled cartouche on upper cover, gilt extras, spine in compartments, gently rubbed. Folio

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