Auction 23 · Lot 154

LEUSDEN, JOHANN.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,900

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

Place

Utrecht

Publication

v.d

Description

Philologus Hebraeus…Concernentes Textum Hebraeum…in fine adjunctus est Catalogus Hebraicus & Latinus Sexcentorum & Tredecim Praeceptorum [Hebrew Philology…Concerning Hebrew Text…Appended Hebrew and Latin Catalogue of 613 Commandments]. pp. (24), 447, (9). Utrecht: Meinard à Dreunen, 1657. * Philologus Hebraeo-Mixtus. pp. (8), 461, (11). Utrecht: Henric Versteegh, 1663. * Philologus Hebraeo-Graecus Generalis,Continens Quaestiones Hebraeo-Graecas, que circa Novum Testamentum Graecum [Greek-Hebrew Philology, Contains Hebrew-Greek Questions about the Greek New Testament. pp. (16), 220, (12). Utrecht: Anthoni Smytegelt, 1670

references

Rubens 291-98 (without frontispiece); EJ, XI 63 (illustrating frontispiece); Furst II, p. 235.

summary

Johann Leusden (1624-1699) was a professor of Hebrew at Utrecht University. He is most famous for having produced in collaboration with the Amsterdam publisher Joseph Athias the magnificent Biblia Hebraica (1661) which served as a model for publications of the Bible up to the 19th century. Leusden also translated the register of 613 commandments that heads Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah (Utrecht, 1656). See EJ, Vol. 11, cols. 63-64; Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexicon, IV

Modern marbled boards. Spine cracked. 4to.

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