Hebrew). Derech Ha’kodesh-Via Sancta. Prepared by Elias Hutter

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

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author

(BIBLE

printer

Elias Hutter- Johann Saxon

Place

Hamburg

Publication

1587

Description

Two volumes. Hollowed inflectional letters on title hand-painted in red. Divisional title

references

Vinograd, Hamburg 4; Darlow & Moule 5108; Berkowitz no.171

summary

AN IMPORTANT EDITION OF THE BIBLE, AN ATTRACTIVE COPY. “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

I: ff. (5), pp.772. Taped marginal repair to tile, f.2 and pp.1-4. Manuscript interliniar Latin translation on pp.1-17, hollowed inflectional letters hand-colored in red on pp.1-90. II: pp. 773-1572 (i.e. 1568). Hollowed root letters hand-colored in red on pp.773-785. Light stains in places, generally a crisp copy. Uniform handsom recent black morocco boards, gilt-titled on spine

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