Bidspirit auction | LEVITA, ELIJAH BACHUR.

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 printed simultaneously 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.