Auction 85
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
By Kestenbaum & Company
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LOT 151:
LEVITA, ELIJAH BACHUR.
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Sold for: $950
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LEVITA, ELIJAH BACHUR.
Opusculum Recens Hebraicum… Sepher HaTishbi [lexicon of Hebrew words in the Talmud, Midrash and Hebrew of the Middle-Ages]
FIRST EDITION. Text in Hebrew and Latin with numerous words in Yiddish and Judeo-Italian. Hebrew title page follows the Latin introduction. Latin initials historiated. Fagius’ woodcut device on last leaf. Marginalia. A wide-margined copy. The Helmut N. Friedlaender copy.
pp. (24), 271 (i.e. 378), (5). Ex-library, lightly browned. Later calf, rubbed. 4to. Vinograd, Isny 9.
Isny: Paulus Fagius 1541
This work was simultaneously printed in two issues, one entirely in Hebrew and the present, Hebrew-Latin issue. This copy contains the rare page (151) discussing Christological issues that was excised from most all copies. See Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book, p. 261.
This work was simultaneously printed in two issues, one entirely in Hebrew and the present, Hebrew-Latin issue. This copy contains the rare page (151) discussing Christological issues that was excised from most all copies. See Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book, p. 261.
