(The Younger). Lexicon Chaldaicum et Syriacum [Aramaic and Syriac Dictionary]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

BUXTORF, JOHANNES

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Ludovici Regis

Place

Basle

Publication

1622

Description

Latin interspersed with Aramaic and Syriac. An early owner has applied to this copy neat vellum tabs arranged in alphabetic order, both in Hebrew and Syriac script. From the Cassuto Collection

summary

Johannes Buxtorf II (or the Younger) (1599-1664) succeeded his father Johannes Buxtorf the Elder in the Chair of Bible and Hebrew Studies at the University of Basle. He translated Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed and Judah Halevi's Kuzari into Latin. See EJ, Vol. IV, col. 1543

pp. (20), 640. Heavily browned and wrinkled. Contemporary vellum, worn. 4to

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