Kotzer Otzar Leshon Hakodesh - Epitome Thesauri Linguae Sanctae.

Estimate: $200–$300
Hammer price: $150

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author

PAGNINUS, SANCTES.

printer

Christopher Plantin

Place

Antwerp

Publication

1578

Description

Second Plantin edition. Printer’s device on title.

references

Sorgeloos, Labore et Constantia: 1555-1589 (Brussels, 1990) pp. 341-2.

summary

This is the second of three Plantin editions of the work (1570, 1578, and 1588). The work was adapted from the dictionary of the Dominican Hebraist Sante Pagnino (Lyon, 1529) by a German-Jewish scholar named Isaac Levita, who worked in the employ of Plantin for less than a year 1563-64.

pp. (16), 447, (9); pp. 113-4 torn out. Previous owners’ marks on title page, browned. Later limp died vellum, light wear. 8vo.

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