Sefer HaShorashim / Liber Radicum seu Lexicon Ebraicum, in quo omnium Vocabulorum Biblicorum

Estimate: $600–$800
Hammer price: $650

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author

AVENARIUS, JOHANNES

printer

Heirs of Johann Craton

Place

Wittemberg

Publication

1588-89

Description

Latin interspersed with Hebrew. On title, Psalm 25:21 in Hebrew and vignette of the Anointment of King David by Samuel. Similar scene occupies full length of final page

references

Adams A-2306

summary

A “Book of Roots,” Hebrew-Latin dictionary and concordance of Bible. The author, Lutheran Hebraist Johann Habermann (Latin, Avenarius) (1516-90) was for a period of time Professor of Theology in Wittemberg.

pp. (16), 860 (i.e., 870), (1), (1 blank). Some foxing. Later calf, worn. Thick folio

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