Selections from The Valmadonna Trust Library: Highly Important Hebrew Printed Books
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LEVITA, ELIJAH BACHUR.
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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. pp. (24), 271 (i.e. 378), (5). Under-linings, some dampstaining. Modern crushed morocco. 4to. Vinograd, Isny 9.
Paulus Fagius, Isny: 1541.
A typically thorough linguistic investigation by this remarkable Hebrew philologist. 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.
