Hebrew). Bibliorum Hebraicorum

Estimate: $2,000–$2,500
Hammer price: $1,500

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author

(BIBLE

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Elias Hutter

Place

Hamburg

Publication

(1587)

Description

Prepared by Elias Hutter. Divisional titles (lacking front title, text complete)

references

Vinograd, Hamburg 6; Darlow & Moule 5108; Berkowitz no.171; H. Z. Zafren, “Elias Hutter’s Hebrew Bibles”in The Joshua Bloch Memorial Volume (1960) pp. 29-39

summary

An extraordinarily ambitious feat of scholarship. “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.” See D.S. Berkowitz, In Rememberance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968) no.171.

pp. (6), 1572. As stated in the French handwritten note of the previous owner, the border of the first divisional title of Neviim Rishonim is bound at the front before the introduction, with the text pasted on the blank before the text of Former Prophets. Very rubbed and chipped. Thick folio

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