PAGNINUS, SANCTES
Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae.
Folio, XVIth's vellum, green edges, light waterstaining to first and last leaves, some browning here and there, unsophisticated copy. Stamp of library deaccession on last leaf. Title within a full-page illustrated woodcut border (from Holbein ?). First editon of this very famous hebrew dictionary, the first dictionary of the Hebrew language Western. Santes Pagnino was a clergyman and a distinguished Hebraist of the sixteenth century and, thanks to the patronage of Leo X, translated from the Hebrew the Old Testament. Adams P-36.
Lyon, Seb. Gryphius, 1529
€ 2.800,00
