Hebrew) Bibliorum Hebraicorum. Prepared by Elias Hutter.

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Elias Hutter

Hamburg

1596 -1603

Title page printed in red and black with large woodcut crest on verso. Fine detailed additional engraved title depicting biblical scenes. Divisional titles.

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

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.” Darlow & Moule 5108. 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, copies of Hutter’s Hebrew Bible originally issued in 1587 were used to form a supplement to the Hamburg Polyglot of 1596 which was also reissued with a new title in 1603. The first title page of this copy is of the reissued 1603 polyglot edition (Quadripartitum Sacrae Scripturae), while the second title remained from the 1596 edition.