Dikduk DeLishan Arami o HaKasda’ah / Chaldaica Grammatica.

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $1,600

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author

MüNSTER SEBASTIAN.

printer

Johann Froben

Place

Basle

Publication

1527

Description

First Edition. Title and text in Hebrew and Latin. Owner’s inscription next to title page. Initials richly historiated. On p.14, “Indian” alphabet. On p.18 wayber-taytsch and Rashi script. On final page, printer’s device. pp. (8), 212, (4). * BOUND WITH: Nathan ben Yechiel of Rome. Aruch - Dictionarium Chaldaicum. Translated into Latin by Sebastian Münster. First Latin edition. Elaborate title-page after Hans Holbein. pp. (8) 434, (1).

references

Vinograd, Basle 22 and 27.

summary

First work includes several selected passages from Aramaic Targums with Latin translation face `a face (pp. 142-51). Also contains a glossary of Aramaic terms (pp. 161-87) and abbreviations (rashei teivoth) (pp. 188-212).

Some marginalia. Lightly browned. Contemporary elaborately bild-tooled vellum over wooden boards, clasps and hinges, rubbed, spine defective. Thick 4to.

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