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LOT 42:
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(BIBLE).
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 and woodcut charts. Marginalia. pp. (12), 1570 (of 1572, lacking first leaf of Genesis), ff. 30. Ex-library, opening and closing leaves wormed, outer margins of first few leaves frayed. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum boards, wormed and worn. Lg. folio. Sold not subject to return. Vinograd, Hamburg 4.
Hamburg, Jacob Wolf - Johann Saxon, 1587-88.
“An extraordinarily ambitious feat of scholarship.” See D.S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968) no. 171.
“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.
