Sefer HaTishbi, Opusculum Recens Hebraicum, lexicon of Hebrew words in the Talmud by the grammarian Rabbi Eliyahu HaLevi Ashkenazi (Rabbi Eliyahu Bachur). Isnae (Isny, Germany), 1541. Printed by PB [Paulus Fagius]. First edition.
Hebrew and Latin on facing pages. The Hebrew text is vowelized. Latin title page and introduction. On the last page is a colophon and the device of the printer Paulus Fagius.
[8], 275, 269-271, [5] pages. 22 cm. Good condition. Stains. Handwritten Latin signature and glosses. Ancient leather binding, faded gilt embossments. Tear to spine.
That same year, another edition was printed in Isny, with only the Hebrew text, see Kedem catalogue, Auction 40, Lot 336. Another Latin edition appears in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, listing 0110328, in which the books begins with [24] pages of additional poems in Latin and in Hebrew and a Hebrew title page. This copy originally only has [8] pages composed of the title page and the Latin introduction.
Provenance: The Sassoon family collection.