Selections from The Valmadonna Trust Library: Highly Important Hebrew Printed Books
Nov 10, 2017
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LOT 174:
(MüNSTER, SEBASTIAN
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Ed.) Shelosh Esrei Ikrim. Divrei HaBayith HaSheini. Eser Gilyoth Yisrael - Tredecim Articuli Fidei Judaeorum (etc).
FIRST LATIN EDITION. Hebrew and Latin on facing pages. Translated by Sebastian Münster. ff. (182), final leaf supplied in facsimile. Modern calf. 12mo. Vinograd, Worms 1-2.
Petrus Schoeffer, Worms: 1529.
The first - and only - Hebrew Book printed in Worms (Rhineland-Palatinate), the famed home of Rashi. Includes an early edition of Maimonides’ Principles of Jewish Faith, here provided with a translation into Latin by Münster one of the foremost Christian Hebraist scholars of his time.
