Juris Hebraeorum Leges CCLXI

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author

HOTTINGER, JOHANN HEINRICH.

printer

Joh. Jacob Bodmer

Place

Zürich

Publication

1655

Description

FIRST EDITION. Hebrew and Latin text

references

Freimann 140; Fuerst I, 414.

summary

Swiss Protestant theologian and Hebraist, Hottinger (1620-67) was one of the founders of modern Oriental linguistics and Bible exegesis (see EJ Vol. VIII, col. 1047). The present work examines the 261 precepts that are expounded upon in Aaron Halevi’s Sepher HaChinuch.

pp. (12), 401, (13). Browned and lightly stained, title remargined, neat marginal repair to final leaf. Contemporary boards, Valmadona-custom gilt-tiled morocco spine-label, rubbed. Sm. 4to.

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