Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Three Books of Tehillim with Latin Translation – Leiden and Basel, 1650-1705
Opening: $120
Sold for: $400
Including buyer's premium
Three editions of the Book of Tehillim, with Latin translation:
1. Tehillim, Psalterii Davidis Editio, with Latin translation and notes by Antonius Hulsius. Leiden: Jan Maire, 1650. Hebrew and Latin.
Two title pages, the first one illustrated.
[287] leaves. 12.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Creases and small tears to margins of several leaves. Old, worn binding, with defects.
2. Tehillim, Liber Psalmorum, with Latin translation by Santes Pagnino. Basel: Johann Brandmüller, 1691. Hebrew and Latin.
[263] leaves. 13 cm. Most leaves in good-fair condition. Stains. Open tears to several leaves, affecting text, repaired with paper (with handwritten replacement on one leaf). Original parchment binding.
3. Tehillim, Liber Psalmorum, with Latin translation by Santes Pagnino. Basel: Johann Brandmüller, 1705. Hebrew and Latin.
[218] leaves. 13.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Marginal tears to title page, repaired with paper. First gathering loose and mostly detached. Early leather binding, with defects, front side detached.
Bible and Psalms
Bible and Psalms