Hebrew). Derech Ha’kodesh-Via Sancta.

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(BIBLE,

printer

Elias Hutter- Johann Saxon

Place

Hamburg

Publication

1587

Description

Prepared by Elias Hutter. Divisional titles.

references

Vinograd, Hamburg 4; Darlow & Moule 5108; Berkowitz no.171

summary

AN IMPORTANT AND UNIQUE BIBLE EDITION. “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. “An extraordinarily ambitious feat of scholarship.” See D.S. Berkowitz, In Rememberance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968) no.171.

pp. (6), 1572 (i.e. 1568). Ex-library, lightly browned and few stains in places, opening two leaves, creased, discolored and frayed at margins. Contemporary elaborately tooled vellum over thick wooden boards. Few tears to extremities, rubbed. Clasps and hinges lacking. Seven bands on spine. Thick folio

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