Otzar Lashon Hakodesh-Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae sive Lexicon Hebraicum

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $375

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

author

PAGNINUS, SANTES

printer

Antonio Gryphius

Place

Lyons

Publication

1577

Description

Printer’s device

references

Adams P-41

summary

Complete in 3188 columns, a massive reworking of David Kimchi’s Michlol and Shoroshim. The Author Santes Pagnini (or Xanthus Pagninus) (1470-1536), an Italian Dominican friar, was considered one of the greatest Christian Hebraists of the age. See C. Roth, Jews in the Renaissance (1959) 146f.; EJ, Vol. XIII, cols. 13-14.

Trace wormed, few stains. Contemporary limp vellum, worn, small portion of upper cover with loss. Thick folio

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