Farrago annotationum in Genesi. Edited by Leo Juda and Caspar Megander

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $600

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author

ZWINGLI, ULRICH.

printer

Christophor Froschouer

Place

Zurich

Publication

1527

Description

FIRST EDITION. Historiated title and printers' device at end. Latin interspersed with Hebrew. Scattered scholarly marginalia in Latin and Hebrew

summary

Zwingli (1484-1531) was the leader of the Reformation in Switzerland. Leo Jud(a) (1482-1542), a Christian Hebraist of Alsatian origin, is famed for his Swiss-German translation of the Bible, which resulted in the Zurich Bible (1527-29) of the Swiss Reformed Church. See EJ, Vol. IV, col. 873; Vol. VIII, col. 39

pp. (2), 491, (1 of 3). Dampstained, title discolored. Old underscoring. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, dentelles, worn. 8vo

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