Hebraicas Institutiones

PAGNINUS, SANTES

Antoniu[m] du Ry

Lyons

1526

FIRST EDITION. Four Books in single volume. Volume reads right to left, Latin interspersed with vocalized Hebrew. Title in red and black within elaborate border. Woodcut of the Author lecturing to his students along with four smaller cuts at beginning of Book One. Many large historiated woodcut initials throughout, woodcut border on last page. Printed in double columns

Freimann, p. 74; not in Steinschneider nor Adams

The Italian Hebraist Santes Pagninus (1470-1536) was taught by a Spanish-Jewish convert to Catholicism, Clement Abraham. Pagnini’s Hebrew grammar was chiefly based on David Kimchi’s Michlol and was widely consulted in the sixteenth century. See EJ, Vol. XIII, cols. 13-14.