Derech HaKodesh. Prepared by Elias Hutter. * BOUND WITH: Hutter, Elias. Cubus Alphabeticus Sanctae Ebraeae Linguae. ff. (30). [Adams H-1243]. (Hamburg: Jacob Wolf, 1588).

Estimate: $5,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $4,500

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author

(BIBLE Hebrew).

printer

Elias Hutter- Johann Saxon

Place

Hamburg

Publication

1587

Description

Divisional titles.

references

Vinograd, Hamburg 4.

summary

“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.

ff. (6), pp. 1572 (i.e. 1568), ff. (30). Modern vellum. Thick folio in slipcase.

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