URI BEN SIMON. Calendarium Palaestinorum et Universorum Judaeorum, ad annos quadraginta [“40-Year Palestinian and Universal Jewish Calendar.”]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $650

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author

(CALENDAR).

printer

Peter Kopff

Place

Frankfurt

Publication

1594

Description

Latin text. Title vignette. Numerous calendric charts and tables. With many Latin marginal notes.

references

Freimann, p. 191

summary

Polish-born Uri ben Simon’s Hebrew calendar for the Jews of Eretz Israel was published in Venice in 1575. This is a Latin translation executed by Jacob Christmann (1554-1613), Professor in Heidelberg.

pp. 159. Ex-library, browned. Contemporary calf, needs rebinding. 4to.

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