14 28 (BIBLE, Polyglot). Biblia Sacra. Genesis-Ruth (All published). Prepared by Elias Hutter. Title within woodcut historiated border featuring vignettes of Biblical scenes including the Tree of Knowledge, Noah’s Ark, and the Binding of Isaac. Divisional title. Text arranged in six columns across two pages in the following languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, German, Italian. Formerly in the library of Paul von Fleischl-Marxow (whose brother Ernst was a mentor to Sigmund Freud). pp. (6), 287, 851, 319. Initial leaves frayed, variously worn and stained in places, occasional light worming. Contemporary lavishly blind-tooled vellum over thick wooden boards, with Valmadonna-custom gilt-tooled morocco spine-labels. Thick folio. [cf. Vinograd, Nürnberg 2; Darlow and Moule 1426; David S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation, pp. 179-80.] Nürnberg, for Elias Hutter, 1599. $2000 - $3000 ❧ HUTTER’S HEXAGLOT BIBLE, AN EXTRAORDINARILY AMBITIOUS FEAT OF SCHOLARSHIP. Text in six columns extending across facing pages. Featuring (from left to right): Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, German and Italian (in place of French as stated in title). Hutter produced four issues of this polyglot, with the sixth language differing - Sloven, Italian, Low-German, and French - depending on the intended audience. In the words of David S. Berkowitz, “The parade of linguistic learning is (little) short of stupefying” (Remembrance of Creation, p. 104). 29 (BIBLE, Hebrew, Latin and Greek). Biblia Hebraica. - Novum Testamentum Graecum. Interlinear Latin translation by Arias Montanus. Individual title-pages each with elaborate woodcut devices. Two volumes bound in one. pp. (26), 183, (1), 283, (1), 84, 203, (3), 134, 186, (8). Lightly worn and stained, lower corners of opening three leaves repaired. Contemporary vellum, with Valmadonna-custom gilt- titled morocco spine labels, new endpapers, backstrip starting. Folio. [Vinograd, Geneva 7; Darlow & Moule 4662 and 5113.] Geneva, Capa Elon (i.e. Pierre de la Rouvière), 1609. $1000 - $1500 ❧ The Hebrew Old Testament with Latin interlinear; bound with the New Testament and Apocrypha providing the Greek text with Latin version. 27 (BIBLE, Hebrew). Derech HaKodesh - Via Sancta. Prepared by Elias Hutter. ff. (6), pp. 1572 (i.e. 1568) * BOUND WITH: Hutter, Elias. Cubus Alphabeticus Sanctæ Ebrææ Linguæ. ff. (30). Divisional titles. Woodcut charts. Manuscript interlinear Latin translation of several Books. Lightly worn and occasionally stained. Bound in Valmadonna-custom full calf, spine titled in gilt. Lg. folio. [Vinograd, Hamburg 4; Adams B-1235 and H-1244.] Hamburg, Jacob Wolf - Johann Saxon, 1587-88. $3000 - $5000 ❧ “In this edition the root letters are printed in thick type and the inflectional letters in hollow type; and when a root letter in any word does not appear, it is printed in small type above the line.” Darlow & Moule 5108. “AN EXTR AORDINARILY AMBITIOUS FEAT OF SCHOLARSHIP.” See D.S. Berkowitz, In Rememberance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968) no.171. Lot 27 Lot 28 Lot 29