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

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $1,500

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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 Judeo-Italian. Hebrew title page follows the Latin introduction. Latin initials historiated. Fagius’ woodcut device on last leaf. Marginalia. A wide-margined copy.

references

Vinograd, Isny 9.

summary

A typically thorough linguistic investigation by this remarkable Hebrew philologist. This copy contains the rare page (151) discussing Christological issues that was excised from most all copies. See Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book, p. 261.

pp. (24), 271 (i.e. 378), (5). Under-linings, some dampstaining. Modern crushed morocco. 4to.

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