Opusculum Recens Hebraicum...Sepher ha-Tishbi [lexicon of Hebrew words in the Talmud, Midrash and Hebrew of the Middle-Ages]

Estimate: $700–$1,000
Hammer price: $750

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author

LEVITA, ELIJAH BACHUR

printer

Paulus Fagius

Place

Isny

Publication

1541

Description

Text in Hebrew and Latin, Hebrew title page after the Latin introduction, Fagius’ woodcut device on last leaf. Wide-margined copy

references

Vinograd, Isny 9

summary

This work was printed simultaneously in two issues, one entirely in Hebrew and the present, Hebrew-Latin issue. This copy contains the rare page (151) discussing Christiological issues that was excised from most all copies. See Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book, Vol. 1, p. 261

pp. (23), 271, (3), previous owner’s inscription “Liber rarus” and signatures on title (dated 1630, 1766 and 1823), slight staining, Numerous marginal notes in Latin interspersed with Hebrew. Modern calf, rubbed. 4to

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