Joannem Ab Incarnatione. Dikduk Leshon HaKedoshah / Grammatica Linguae Sancta.

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $550

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author

(HEBREW).

printer

Typis Academiae

Place

Coimbra

Publication

1789

Description

FIRST EDITION. Latin interspersed with fully vocalized Hebrew.

summary

Rare Hebrew grammar printed in Portugal. It might strike one as ironic that at the height of the Inquisition, when Portugal had been purged of Judaism, the Hebrew language - “the sacred tongue” - was studied by Catholic theologians at the prestigious University of Coimbra. WorldCat shows but a single copy of this book, located in the Sterling Library, Yale University.

pp. (8), 4, 549, (1 blank). Lightly browned. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. 4to.

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