Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures

The Alphabet of the Holy Tongue – Paris, 1532

Opening: $400
Sold for: $688
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Alphabetum linguae sanctae, mystico intellectu refertum [Alphabet of the holy tongue, full of mystical meaning], by Jean Chéradame. Paris: Aegidius Gormontius, 1532. Latin with some Hebrew.
Guide to the study of the Hebrew alphabet, focusing on mystical and symbolic meanings of the letters, by Jean Chéradame, 16th century French humanist and Hebraist.
On title page, woodcut printer's device.

86, [1] leaves. 15 cm. Overall good condition. Stains and light wear. Signatures on title page and endpapers, and handwritten inscriptions on margins of some leaves. Bookplate. Corrigenda (half page), mounted over endpaper at end of volume; mounting contemporaneous with printing. New binding and endpapers.

Not recorded in the NLI catalog.
Hebraica – Foreign Language Books: Latin, French, Italian, German, and More
Hebraica – Foreign Language Books: Latin, French, Italian, German, and More