Hebrew). Derech Ha’kodesh-Via Sancta. Prepared by Elias Hutter. * WITH: Hutter, Elias. Cubus Alphabeticus Sanctae Ebraeae Linguae. ff. (30). [Adams H-1243]. (Hamburg: Jacob Wolf, 1588)

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(BIBLE,

printer

Elias Hutter- Johann Saxon

Place

Hamburg

Publication

1587

Description

Divisional titles

references

Vinograd, Hamburg 4; Darlow & Moule 5108; Berkowitz no.171

summary

“In this edition the root letters are printed in thick type and the inflectional letters in hollow type; and when a root letter in any word does not appear, it is printed in small type above the line.” Darlow & Moule 5108. “An extraordinarily ambitious feat of scholarship.” See D.S. Berkowitz, In Rememberance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968) no.171

pp. (7), 1572 (i.e. 1568). Title remargined, opening few leaves lightly worn, slightly browned. Modern morocco. Thick folio

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