Johannes Avenarius. Sefer HaShorashim - Liber Radicum Seu, Lexicon Hebraicum, in Quo Omnium Vocabulorum Biblico.

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(GRAMMAR, HEBREW)

printer

Heirs of Johann Craton

Place

Wittemberg

Publication

1588-9

Description

Latin interspersed with Hebrew. On title, Psalm 25:21 in Hebrew and vignette of the Anointment of King David by Samuel. Similar scene occupies full length of final page.

references

Adams A-2306.

summary

“Book of Roots,” a Hebrew-Latin dictionary and concordance of Bible. The author, Lutheran Hebraist Johann Habermann (Latin, Avenarius) (1516-90) was Professor of Theology in Wittemberg.

pp. (16), 860 (i.e. 870), (2). Some foxing, few stains. Later calf, rubbed and scuffed. Thick folio.

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