![TACITUS, Publius Cornelius (c.55-120). Opera quae exstant, editione ultima, et cum ad ea omnia commentariis aut notis. Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1585. [Bound with:] CHYTRÄUS, David (1530-1600). Vandaliae et Saxoniae Alberti cranzii continvatio. Ab anno Christi 1500. Wittenberg: Johann I Krafft [Johann Rühel & Konrad II Rühel], 1586.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14301_0175_000(tacitus_publius_cornelius_opera_quae_exstant_editione_ultima_et_cum_ad032310).jpg?w=1)
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TACITUS, Publius Cornelius (c.55-120). Opera quae exstant, editione ultima, et cum ad ea omnia commentariis aut notis. Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1585. [Bound with:] CHYTRÄUS, David (1530-1600). Vandaliae et Saxoniae Alberti cranzii continvatio. Ab anno Christi 1500. Wittenberg: Johann I Krafft [Johann Rühel & Konrad II Rühel], 1586.
First folio edition (third overall printing) of Lipsius’ celebrated edition of Tacitus. Also with the rare first and sole edition of Chyträeus’ continuation of Albert Krantz’s History of the Vandals and the Saxons, of which only one copy is listed on USTC. An unusual binding reusing mid-15th-century Hebrew manuscript leaves written in square Ashkenazic letters, from Germany or German-speaking surrounding countries (Ashkenaz). The present Hebrew text is identified as being taken from Or Zarua, the work of Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (c.1200-1270), and is a guide to Jewish law which is arranged according to the Talmudic tractates. Our fragment is dealing with the laws concerning circumcision (second part, Hilkhot Millah, Siman 104). PMM 93 (1574 octavo edition); USTC 402074. USTC 698410; VD16 ZV-23964.
Together 2 works in one volume, folio (335 x 215mm). Vol. I without last blank, each with a folding sheet, woodcut devices on titles (both with occasional toning, spotting and staining, some worming, tear without loss to second folding sheet). Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin-backed pasteboards papered with reused mid-15th-century Hebrew manuscript vellum leaves, manuscript spine title label (some worming, somewhat worn). Provenance: Klein (ownership inscription on first title verso).
First folio edition (third overall printing) of Lipsius’ celebrated edition of Tacitus. Also with the rare first and sole edition of Chyträeus’ continuation of Albert Krantz’s History of the Vandals and the Saxons, of which only one copy is listed on USTC. An unusual binding reusing mid-15th-century Hebrew manuscript leaves written in square Ashkenazic letters, from Germany or German-speaking surrounding countries (Ashkenaz). The present Hebrew text is identified as being taken from Or Zarua, the work of Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (c.1200-1270), and is a guide to Jewish law which is arranged according to the Talmudic tractates. Our fragment is dealing with the laws concerning circumcision (second part, Hilkhot Millah, Siman 104). PMM 93 (1574 octavo edition); USTC 402074. USTC 698410; VD16 ZV-23964.
Together 2 works in one volume, folio (335 x 215mm). Vol. I without last blank, each with a folding sheet, woodcut devices on titles (both with occasional toning, spotting and staining, some worming, tear without loss to second folding sheet). Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin-backed pasteboards papered with reused mid-15th-century Hebrew manuscript vellum leaves, manuscript spine title label (some worming, somewhat worn). Provenance: Klein (ownership inscription on first title verso).
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