Four Latin works (bound together) on Hebrew grammar. The works were meant to enable Christian students, scholars and theologians to understand the basics of the Hebrew language in order to study the Hebrew scriptures in the original. Paris, 1540s.
1. Luach HaDikduk, Tabula in grammaticen Hebraeam, by Nicolas Cleynaerts. Paris, 1544. Title page detached. Printer's device on title page and last page. This edition is not recorded in the NLI catalog.
2. Institutiones Hebraicae [Fundamentals of Hebrew], by Alano Restaldo Calignio. Paris, 1545. Printer's device on title page and last page. This edition is not recorded in the NLI catalog.
3. HaKotzer, Institutionum Hebraicarum abbreviatio [Abridged fundamentals of Hebrew], edited by Santes Pagnino. Paris, 1546.
4. Observationes in linguam Hebraicam [Remarks on the Hebrew language], by Santes Pagnino. Paris, 1546.
Four works in one volume (first three works arranged from right to left): 155 pages, [2] leaves; 73 pages, [2] leaves; 215, [1] pages; 61, [1] pages. 16 cm. Overall good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Creases and wear. Many marginal inscriptions. Title page of first work detached. Bookplate. Original leather binding, with gilt inscriptions on spine. Minor tears and defects to binding and spine.
