Hebrew). Biblia Ebraica. Prepared by Elias Hutter.

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Elias Hutter

Hamburg

1595

Two volumes. Fine detailed additional engraved title depicting biblical scenes and Latin title page printed in red and black. Divisional titles.

Vinograd, Hamburg 6; Darlow & Moule 5108; Berkowitz no.171

“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 also D.S. Berkowitz, In Rememberance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968) no.171. According to Berkowitz and Darlow & Moule 1425, copies of Hutter’s Hebrew Bible originally issued in 1587 were used to form a supplement to the Hamburg Polyglot of 1596, bearing a fresh (and false) title. The engraved title page and Latin title page printed in red and black of the present copy is of the polyglot edition (Bibliorum QuadrilinguiumTomus Primus in quo textus Hebraicus) and although the divisional titles remained from the 1587 edition, the opening title carries a variant date of 1595 (instead of 1596), not noted by Darlow & Moule.