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Fi.5.04(02)

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Title

Ḥokhmat ha-mazalot bi-tequfot u-meʻurot ṿe-haqviʻot = Kalendariu[m] Hebraicum, opera Sebastiani Munsteri ex Hebræorum penetralibus jam rece[n]s in lucem æditum: quod no[n] Hebraice studiosis quàm historiographis & astronomiæ peritis subseruire poterit.

Varying form of title

Parallel title: Kalendariu[m] Hebraicum

Varying form of title

Hokhmat ha-mazalot bi-tequfot u-me'urot ve-haqvi'ot

Varying form of title

Kalendarium Hebraicum

Publication, distribution, etc.

Basileae : Apud Io. Frob., Anno M. D. XXVII. [1527]

Physical description

[8], 200, [16] p., [2] fold. leaves of plates : ill. (woodcuts) ; 18 cm. (4to)

Language

Text in Hebrew with Latin translation on facing pages.

Note

First part of title transliterated from Hebrew.

Note

An exposition of the Jewish calendar, including the Hebrew text of an early Jewish historical work, the Seder olam zuta, by Sebastian Münster, one of the greatest Christian Hebraists of his time. Münster taught Hebrew language (and for a short time Bible) at Heidelberg and Basel Universities. Via his teaching and his textbooks, he helped to establish Hebrew and the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible as viable subjects of academic study.

Note

Note in 2nd suppl. cat. of Hebrew printed books in the British Library: Including portions of the Seder Olam zuta, the beginning of the Sefer ha-Kabalah of Abraham ben David ha-Levi, and Iggul, the chronological canon of Nahshon Gaon.

Note

Signatures: a-z⁴ A-E⁴.

Note

The two folded plates are signed h3 and q2 to indicate where they should be bound.

Note

Colophon: Basileae apud Io. Frob. anno M.D.XXVII. Mense Ianuario.

Note

Printer's device on title page, and on last page at end.

Note

Historiated initials, marginal notes.

Note

Dedicated to Bernardo Episcopo Tridentino.

Note

Text in Hebrew with Latin translation on facing pages.

Citation/references note

Adams, M1933

Citation/references note

VD16, M6688

Citation/references note

Lawn, Brian. Catalogus Bibliothecae Lawnianae, p. 155

Provenance

Engraved armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington, recording donation to Eton College in 1731. 18th-century engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.

Provenance

Ms. ownership inscription on final page, with two line inscription in Greek: "Robertus Brettone" i.e. Robert Bretton?

Provenance

Ms. calculation, diagram, Greek annotation and possible ownership inscription (crossed out) on endleaf of bound volume.

Binding

17th-century brown calf; blind-tooled border of three rolls; four sewing stations; rebacked in recent brown calf retaining earlier red leather spine label.

Copy-specific note

Bound with: Pont, Robert. De sabbaticorum annorum periodis chronologica... digestio. [London] : Excusum per Gulielmum Iones, 1619.

Copy-specific note

Previously Ag.7.26.

Subject

Jewish calendar Early works to 1800.

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Added entry--place

Switzerland Basel.

Language code

lat heb heb

Identifier

B37979
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