Opusculum Recens Hebraicum… Sepher ha-Tishbi [lexicon of Hebrew words in the Talmud, Midrash and Hebrew of the Middle-Ages]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

LEVITA, ELIJAH BACHUR.

printer

Paulus Fagius

Place

Isny

Publication

1541

Description

FIRST EDITION . Text in Hebrew and Latin with numerous words in Yiddish and Judaeo Italian. Wide margins. Hebrew and Latin marginalia.

references

Vinograd, Isny 9; Steinschneider, Bibl. Handbuch, no. 1167 (sehr selten).

summary

This copy has eleven more introductory pages than recorded by Vinograd. A typically thorough linguistic investigation by a remarkable Hebrew philologist. Provenance: The Library of Salman Schocken. Sold at Sotheby’s, Important Hebrew Books from the Library of… Salman Schocken, London, 6th December 1993, Lot 256.

pp. (24), 271 (i.e. 378), (5). Mispaginated, lightly browned. 18th-century calf, rebacked. 4to.

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