Hebrew). Derech HaKodesh - Via Sancta. Prepared by Elias Hutter. ff. (6), pp. 1572 (i.e. 1568). * BOUND WITH: Hutter, Elias. Cubus Alphabeticus Sanctæ Ebrææ Linguæ. ff. (30).

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $3,000

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author

(BIBLE

printer

Jacob Wolf - Johann Saxon

Place

Hamburg

Publication

1587-88

Description

Divisional titles. Woodcut charts. Manuscript interlinear Latin translation of several Books.

references

Vinograd, Hamburg 4; Adams B-1235 and H-1244.

summary

“In this edition the root letters are printed in thick type and the inflectional letters in hollow type; and when a root letter in any word does not appear, it is printed in small type above the line.” Darlow & Moule 5108. “An extraordinarily ambitious feat of scholarship.” See D.S. Berkowitz, In Rememberance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968), no.171.

Lightly worn and occasionally stained. Bound in Valmadonna-custom full calf, spine titled in gilt. Lg. folio.

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