Auction 49 · Lot 207

LEUSDEN, JOHANNES.

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $150

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

printer

Francis Halma

Place

Utrecht

Publication

1686

Description

Philologus Hebræus, Continens Quaestiones Hebraicis [on Hebrew philology]. Engraved additional title. Text in Latin with some use of Hebrew type. Engraved portrait of the Author. pp. (20), 440. * BOUND WITH: Sexcenta & Tredecim Præcepta Mosaica à Maimonide ex Pentateucho [Maimonides’ register of the 613 Biblical commandments]. Hebrew and Latin in facing columns. pp.(4), 56. Tear on pp. 177-8 tape-repared

summary

Johann Leusden (1624-1699) was professor of Hebrew at Utrecht University. He is most famous for having produced, in collaboration with the Amsterdam publisher Joseph Athias, the magnificent Biblia Hebraica (1661) which served as a model for publications of the Bible up to the 19th-century. It has been speculated that Aschkenazic rabbis of Amsterdam took in hand the instruction of Johannes Leusden, a Hebraist of great renown. See EJ, Vol. XI, cols. 63-64; A.L. Katchen, Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis (1984), p. 310, n. 25

Contemporary blind-tooled calf, rebacked. 4to

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