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Bidding Information
Lot #    11985
Auction End Date    11/1/2005 10:44:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Psalterium harmonicum
Title (Hebrew)    תהלים
Author    [Psalms - Polyglot]
City    Nuernberg
Publisher    Eliae Hutteri (Elias Hutter)
Publication Date    1602
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   863, [1 blank] pp., 187:121 mm., nice margins, usual light age and damp staining, old hand on fly. A very good copy bound in contemporary vellum, split and rubbed. Rare - no copy in many major collections.
          
Detailed
Description
   Polyglot Psalms in Hebrew, Hebrew in Latin letters (transliterated), Greek, Latin, and German by Elias Hutter.

Elias Hutter , was born in 1553 in Goerlitz. He studied Eastern languages at Jena. In 1577 he became a professor of the Hebrew language in Leipzig. His great plan to publish a new Hebrew edition of the Bible was not financially successful. Individual books appeared but the demand was too small to cover his costs. In 1597, he opened his own publishing enterprise in Nuremberg. Here he published his famous polyglot editions of the Bible. Again his publication costs were too large and because of his debts he was forced to leave. Nothing more is known of his life but he was dead by 1609. Hutter's concern was neither for correctness of text nor beauty of typography, though he succeeded in both.

          
Paragraph 2    Ebraice, Graece, Latine & Germanice... studio & labore, Eliae Hutteri, Germani.

תהלים בעברית ובתעתיק באותיות לאטיניות, עם תרגומים ליוונית, לאטינית וגרמנית.

          
Reference
Description
   CD-EPI 0304552; Yudlov, Mehlman Collection
        
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Listing Classification
Period
17th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Bindings:    Checked
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew, Latin, Greek, German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica