POLYGLOT). Biblia Sacra. Genesis-Ruth (All published)

(BIBLE

for Elias Hutter

Nürnberg

1599

Title within woodcut border; vignettes of Biblical scenes including the Tree of Knowledge, Noah’s Ark, and the Binding of Isaac. Separate titles for each Book of Bible. Texts arranged in six columns across two pages: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, German, French.

Darlow and Moule 1426; David S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation, pp. 179-80

HUTTER’S HEXAGLOT OLD TESTAMENT. UNCOMMON TO APPEAR AT AUCTION. The Hebrew text employs Hutter’s unique method of combining solid and holow types to help the student identify roots of words. Root letters that are not evident (chaserim) are displayed as superscript above the word. In the words of David S. Berkowitz, “The parade of linguistic learning is short of stupefying” (Remembrance of Creation, p. 104). Hutter produced four issues of his polyglot, with the sixth language differing - (Sloven, Italian, Low German, and French) - depending on the intended audience. The present copy is the French version.