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MÜNSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552). Institutiones grammaticae in Hebraeam linguam. Basel: Johann Froben, February 1524.
8o (152 x 108 mm). Hebrew and Roman type. Woodcut printer's device on title and colophon verso, woodcut musical notation on p2-3, headpieces and initials. (Closed tear crossing text on m3, final leaf s8 reinforced at gutter, some marginalia trimmed.) Contemporary limp vellum from a leaf of a ?15th century service book, remains of ties (spine darkened and worn along joints); cloth slipcase. Provenance: partially effaced signature on title dated 1621, early inscriptions on front flyleaf, marginalia -- Theological Library at Aberdeen (stamps on flyleaves) -- Church of St. Elizabeth, Breslau (engraved bookplate) -- ?sold Sotheby's (Hodgsons) London, 22-24 November 1972 -- purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, 10 January 1973. Adams M-1931; BM/STC German, p.633.
[Bound with:]
MÜNSTER, Sebastian. Tabula omnium Hebraicarum coniugationum. Basel: [Johann Froben, ca 1525].
8o. 24 leaves. Hebrew and Roman type. Woodcut printer's device on final leaf verso. (First two leaves with inner margins reinforced and corners repaired affecting a few letters of marginalia, a few other marginal repairs affecting a few letters of headlines, stained.) Adams M-1940.
[Bound with:]
MÜNSTER, Sebastian. Hebraicae grammaticae praecipua illa pars quae est de verborum coniugationibus & eorum affixis. Basel: Heinrich Petri, August 1536.
8o. Hebrew and Roman type. Woodcut printer's device on final leaf verso. (Crude marginal repairs to A2-6 catching a few letters, a few other small marginal repairs, light staining at head.) Adams M-1932.
[Bound with:]
Hieremiae prophetae threni. Preface by Philipp Melanchthon. Wittenberg, January 1524.
8o. 16 leaves. Hebrew and Roman type. Title within woodcut border. (Wormtrack catching a few letters.)
A fine sammelband of early 16th-century Christain Hebraica, including three of Sebastian Münster's Hebrew grammatical works. While chiefly remembered today for his great Cosmographia of 1544, Münster was best known to his contemporaries as a Hebrew scholar. He occupied the chair of Hebrew at Basel from 1527.
8o (152 x 108 mm). Hebrew and Roman type. Woodcut printer's device on title and colophon verso, woodcut musical notation on p2-3, headpieces and initials. (Closed tear crossing text on m3, final leaf s8 reinforced at gutter, some marginalia trimmed.) Contemporary limp vellum from a leaf of a ?15th century service book, remains of ties (spine darkened and worn along joints); cloth slipcase. Provenance: partially effaced signature on title dated 1621, early inscriptions on front flyleaf, marginalia -- Theological Library at Aberdeen (stamps on flyleaves) -- Church of St. Elizabeth, Breslau (engraved bookplate) -- ?sold Sotheby's (Hodgsons) London, 22-24 November 1972 -- purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, 10 January 1973. Adams M-1931; BM/STC German, p.633.
[Bound with:]
MÜNSTER, Sebastian. Tabula omnium Hebraicarum coniugationum. Basel: [Johann Froben, ca 1525].
8o. 24 leaves. Hebrew and Roman type. Woodcut printer's device on final leaf verso. (First two leaves with inner margins reinforced and corners repaired affecting a few letters of marginalia, a few other marginal repairs affecting a few letters of headlines, stained.) Adams M-1940.
[Bound with:]
MÜNSTER, Sebastian. Hebraicae grammaticae praecipua illa pars quae est de verborum coniugationibus & eorum affixis. Basel: Heinrich Petri, August 1536.
8o. Hebrew and Roman type. Woodcut printer's device on final leaf verso. (Crude marginal repairs to A2-6 catching a few letters, a few other small marginal repairs, light staining at head.) Adams M-1932.
[Bound with:]
Hieremiae prophetae threni. Preface by Philipp Melanchthon. Wittenberg, January 1524.
8o. 16 leaves. Hebrew and Roman type. Title within woodcut border. (Wormtrack catching a few letters.)
A fine sammelband of early 16th-century Christain Hebraica, including three of Sebastian Münster's Hebrew grammatical works. While chiefly remembered today for his great Cosmographia of 1544, Münster was best known to his contemporaries as a Hebrew scholar. He occupied the chair of Hebrew at Basel from 1527.