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Guidacerius, Agathius. Peculium Agathii-Mikneh Agathii (Hebrew grammar).
Paris, Christiani Wecheli, 1537, 16.7 x 10.1 cm.
44 leaves, [3 last leaves blank, with printer's mark on verso of final leaf (f.44)], gathered in 5 quires of 8 leaves and 1 quire of 4, without foliation, signatures marked with Roman letters and numerals, catchwords, printed from right to left, some browning, a few light waterstains, modern leather backed boards, excellent condition.
The author, an Italian priest, served first as professor of Hebrew at the University of Rome from 1514 onwards, later he became a royal reader at the College of the Three Languages in Paris, where the study of Hebrew was on a par with that of Latin and Greek. This work, a short explanation of the Hebrew alphabet with elementary rules for reading Hebrew, was based on Moses Kimchi, Petach Devarai, Mikhlol and others.
StHB 759; Cowley 222; Deinard, Atikot-Yehudah 29; Yudlov, the Mehlmann Collection 1905 (registered imperfect copy of only 41 leaves without
the last three printer's blanks).
See illustration
Paris, Christiani Wecheli, 1537, 16.7 x 10.1 cm.
44 leaves, [3 last leaves blank, with printer's mark on verso of final leaf (f.44)], gathered in 5 quires of 8 leaves and 1 quire of 4, without foliation, signatures marked with Roman letters and numerals, catchwords, printed from right to left, some browning, a few light waterstains, modern leather backed boards, excellent condition.
The author, an Italian priest, served first as professor of Hebrew at the University of Rome from 1514 onwards, later he became a royal reader at the College of the Three Languages in Paris, where the study of Hebrew was on a par with that of Latin and Greek. This work, a short explanation of the Hebrew alphabet with elementary rules for reading Hebrew, was based on Moses Kimchi, Petach Devarai, Mikhlol and others.
StHB 759; Cowley 222; Deinard, Atikot-Yehudah 29; Yudlov, the Mehlmann Collection 1905 (registered imperfect copy of only 41 leaves without
the last three printer's blanks).
See illustration