Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae / Otzar Leshon Hakodesh

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,300

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

PAGNINUS, SANCTES.

printer

Sebastian Gryphius

Place

Lyon

Publication

1529

Description

FIRST EDITION. Hebrew and Latin text. Title surrounded by 16 elaborately engraved vignettes of wise men of the ages (i.e.: Aristotle, Plato, King Solomon, Socrates, Pythagoras, etc). Printed in double columns. Printer’s device on final page.

references

Adam P-36; Freimann, p. 90

summary

First edition of this masterpiece, a massive reworking of R. David Kimchi’s Sepher HaShorashim (Book of Roots). Santes Pagnini (or, Xanthus Pagninus, 1470-1536), an Italian Dominican friar, was considered one of the greatest Christian Hebraists of his time.

pp. (16), (688) or: 2752 cols., (4). Previous owner’s notations, trace worn and lightly foxed, few minor worhholes. 17th-century calf, worn and scuffed. Thick folio.

Enquire about this lot