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HOTTINGER, JOHANN HEINRICH. - Juris Hebraeorum Leges CCLXI FIRST EDITION. Hebrew and Latin text pp. (12), 401, (13). Browned and lightly stained, title remargined, neat marginal repair to final leaf. Contemporary boards, Valmadona-custom gilt-tiled morocco spine-label, rubbed. Sm. 4to. Freimann 140; Fuerst I, 414. Zürich: Joh. Jacob Bodmer 1655 Swiss Protestant theologian and Hebraist, Hottinger (1620-67) was one of the founders of modern Oriental linguistics and Bible exegesis (see EJ Vol. VIII, col. 1047). The present work examines the 261 precepts that are expounded upon in Aaron Halevi’s Sepher HaChinuch.