Mikneh Avram-Peculium Abrae.

Estimate

$1,000–$1,500

Hammer price

$1,300

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author

BALMES, ABRAHAM DE.

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1523

Description

FIRST EDITION. Hebrew and Latin on facing pages. From the library of the rabbinic scholar R. Shaol Kosovsky-Shachor (1933-67).

references

Vinograd, Venice 81; Habermann, Bomberg 76; Mehlman 1868.

summary

Distinguished in many fields, de Balmes served as physician to Cardinal Grimani of Venice and lecturered at the University of Padua where he attained renown as an Aristotelian. Greatly valued by contemporary Christian Hebraists, de Balmes prepared this grammar at the urging of the printer Daniel Bomberg, with whom a deep friendship was shared. The work appeared in two issues, with and without a Latin translation. Heinrich Graetz in his Geschichte (vol. IX, 215) has attempted to suggest that the translation was prepared by Bomberg himself. See D. Amram, the Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy (1909) pp. 169-7.

ff. (316). Previous owners’ marks, few stains, gutter split. Contemporary vellum, crudely taped. Thick 4to.

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