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PAGNINUS, SANCTES

Christopher Plantin

Antwerp

1578

Printer’s device (golden compasses) on title. In Latin. D. H. de Castro copy. Several signatures on title: “Gomes,” “Bends,” “Adams.” On final page, signature of previous owner: “John Shane.”

Dictionary of Hebrew. This is the second of three Plantin editions of the work (1570, 1578, and 1588). The work was adapted from the dictionary of the Dominican Hebraist Sante Pagnino (Lyon, 1529) by a German-Jewish scholar Isaac Levita, who worked in the employ of Plantin for less than a year 1563-1564. See Sorgeloos, Labore et Constantia: 1555-1589 (Brussels, 1990), pp. 341-342.