Philologus Hebraeo-Mixtus

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

LEUSDEN, JOHANNES

printer

F. Halma

Place

Utrecht

Publication

1682

Description

Second edition. Complete with nine engraved plates (including frontispiece) depicting Biblical and 17th century Jewish custom (home and synagogue-life). The frontispiece depicting the destruction of the Temple with Israel depicted as a queen carried off into captivity. Latin text interspersed with Hebrew and Greek

references

Rubens 291-98 (without frontispiece); EJ, XI 63 (illustrating frontispiece)

summary

It has been speculated that Aschkenazic rabbis of Amsterdam took in hand the instruction of Johannes Leusden, a Hebraist of great renown. See A.L. Katchen, Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis (1984), p. 310, n. 25

Slight marginal repair to frontspiece. Modern calf. 4to

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