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Auction 23 · Lot 39

Sefer ha-Shorashim / Liber Radicum…Lexicon Ebraicum, in quo omnium vocabulorum biblicorum []

Estimate
$600–$900
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

AVENARIUS, JOHANNES

printer

Johann Craton

Place

Wittemberg

Publication

1589

Description

On title, Psalm 25:21 in Hebrew and vignette of anointment of David by Samuel. Similar scene occupies full length of final page. Opposite p.1 lengthy scholarly note in English

references

Adams 2306

summary

A “Book of Roots,” Hebrew-Latin Dictionary and Concordance of Bible. The Author, Lutheran Hebraist Johann Habermann (Latin, Avenarius) (1516-1590) was for a period of time Professor of Theology in Wittemberg
ff. (16), 860, (1). Minor repairs and staining. Modern boards.Thick folio
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