Ed.) Shelosh Esrei Ikrim. Divrei HaBayith HaSheini. Eser Gilyoth Yisrael - Tredecim Articuli Fidei Judaeorum (etc).

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $6,000

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author

MüNSTER, SEBASTIAN

printer

Petrus Schoeffer

Place

Worms

Publication

1529

Description

FIRST LATIN EDITION. Hebrew and Latin on facing pages. Translated by Sebastian Münster. Printer’s device at end. Latin marginalia in an early hand.

references

Vinograd, Worms 1-2.

summary

The first - and only - Hebrew Book printed in Worms (Rhineland-Palatinate), the famed hometown of Rashi. Includes an early edition of Maimonides’ Principles of Jewish Faith, here provided with a translation into Latin by Münster one of the foremost Christian Hebraist scholars of his time.

ff. (182). Trace foxed, small marginal tear on f.159, otherwise a good copy. Later vellum. 12mo.

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