[Melekhet ha-diḳduḳ ha-shalem] = Opus grammaticum consummatum, ex uarijs Elianis libris concinnatum, complectens scilicet elementarium absolutum, numerandi rationem, pronominum declinationes, uerborum integras coniugationes, artificium subijciendorum affixorum, nominu[m] uarias formulas & mutationes, consignificatiuorum explicationes, magistrales abbreuiationes, accentuum tractationem, metrorum compositionem / authore Sebastiano Munstero. [Sefer Ṭovi] = additus est quoque liber Tobiae, quem Hebraicu[m] suppeditarunt Iudaei Constantinopolitani / cum uersione & annotationibus Sebastiani Munsteri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552, author.

Schreckenfuchs, Erasmus Oswald, 1511-1579, author, editor.

Contributor:

Petri, Heinrich, 1508-1579, printer.

Language:

Hebrew

Latin

Subjects (All):

Hebrew language--Grammar--Early works to 1800.

Hebrew language.

Hebrew language--Grammar.

Genre:

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Tsevi Hirsch (autograph) (inscription) (LIBRA Katz Rare copy)

Tychonius (autograph) (LIBRA Katz Rare copy)

Godson, Petrus (autograph) (inscription) (LIBRA Katz Rare copy)

Physical Description:

[8], 387, [109] pages ; 8vo

Manufacture:

Basileae : Per Henricum Petri, mense Augusto, an. 1556.

Other Title:

Opus grammaticum consummatum, ex uarijs Elianis libris concinnatum

Opvs grammaticvm consvmmatvm, ex uarijs Elianis libris concinnatum

Notes:

Cataloged from an incomplete copy, title, pagination statement from VD16.

Romanization supplied by cataloger.

Each part has special title page (Book of Tobit with a half-title following text). Printer's device at end of first two parts.

Title page for Book of Tobit: Historia Tobiæ per Sebastianum Munsterum iuxta Hebaismum uersa, Una cum Schol[au]s eius dem Interpretis.

Originally published as Institutiones grammaticae in Hebraeam linguam, [Basel], 1524.

Publisher statement and date from colophon, leaf B2v.

Signatures: [dagger]⁴, a-z⁸, A⁸, B⁴, Aa⁸, Bb⁴, aAa-eEe⁸.

Leaves B4 and eEe8 are blank.

Bearer type on blank leaf [eEe8] : headed "TOBIAS" ; ornaments on leaf [eEe7] at bottom of leaf.

Hebrew text printed and signed right to left.

Type-ornaments; woodcut initials.

Book of Tobit Hebrew text and Latin translation printed in two facing columns; Hebrew text vocalized; Hebrew catchwords.

Local Notes:

LIBRA Katz Rare copy purchased from Winner's Auctions (Jerusalem), Sale 140 (21 February 2023) lot 9.

LIBRA Katz Rare copy imperfect; present are leaves Aa⁸, Bb⁴, aAa-eEe⁸.

LIBRA Katz Rare copy with a 19th century library stamp pasted inside back cover: "Th. 154".

LIBRA Katz Rare copy formerly owned by Tsevi Hirsch (inscription in Hebrew: שאולה הוי בידי מן התו' הר"ר צבי הירש יצ"ו".

LIBRA Katz Rare copy with early manuscript writing in Judeo-German (דאננארשטא[ג] מארגין 4 מיט 7).

LIBRA Katz Rare copy with Latin inscription: "Tychonius posidet 1689" inscribed on title page.

LIBRA Katz Rare copy with Latin inscription: "Petrus Godson(?) posidet" inscribed on title page.

LIBRA Katz Rare copy bound in marbled boards, with a leather spine (18th century?); spine gilt, with three raised bands; leather tips.

Cited in:

VD 16, M6723

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-Sefer ha-'Ivri, Basel 92

Contains:

Bible. Tobit. Hebrew. 1556.

Bible. Tobit. Latin. Münster. 1556.

OCLC:

45570892