Johannis Buxtorfii P. lexicon chaldaicum, talmudicum, et rabbinicum...Opus XXX. Annorum, nunc demum, post patris obitum, ex ipsius autographo...in lucem editum
Basileæ: Ludovici König, 1640. Folio, pp. [12], 2680 columns, [63]; collating: [*1-6], *1-[*6A], A-[4Y2] in fours, 4Z-8N4, 8O1-[8O6]; signature 4Y repeated; copper-engraved portrait and title page, text in double column; full contemporary parchment (considerably soiled), blind-tooled lozenges central on both covers, spine in 9 compartments (bottom one perished), manuscript spine title; extremities worn, pages unevenly browned and spotted, else textblock about fine. 18th- or 19th-century armorial bookplate of Lord Handyside on front pastedown. Buxtorf (1564-1629), the famed German Hebrew and Rabbinical scholar, and the protege of Grynaeus and Beza, devoted his life to the study of Hebrew and rabbinical literature. The Lexicon Chaldaicum is his most important and far-reaching work, on which he had spent the labor of twenty years. He did not live, however, to see the work in print. His son of the same name (1599-1664), himself a noted theologian and Semitic scholar, spent another ten years of additional study before it was finally published. It is a "monument of untiring labor and industry," and still ranks today as one of the finest works of its kind. Vancil, p. 40; Zaunmüller, p. 37. Item #42943
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