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Targum Jonathan of Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes with Latin Translation – "Lament Essay" on the Death of Sebastian Münster – Basel, 1553 – Original Parchment Binding

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Targum Jonathan of Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes, Cantica Canticorum & Ecclesiastes Salomonis, with Latin translation; with Ma'amar HaKina ["Lament Essay"] – a lament in Hebrew, by Erasmus Oswald Schreckenfuchs, on the death of his teacher, the scholar Sebastian Münster. Basel: Henricus Petrus, 1553.
The Aramaic text of Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes in Targum Jonathan, with facing Latin translation, page by page.
The second part of the book (with a separate title page, printed right to left) is Ma'amar HaKina, including a lament on the death of the Christian scholar Sebastian Münster in 1552, written by his student Erasmus Oswald Schreckenfuchs (1511-1575), a mathematician, astronomer and Hebraist.
On the flyleaf before the title page of Ma'amar HaKina, is a handwritten dedication by R. Jacob Koppel Dushinsky, on one of the endpapers appears the stamp of R. Dushinsky.


R. Dr. Jacob Koppel Dushinsky (1878-1954), son of Rabbi Dov Ber Dushinsky, rabbi of Námestovo (son-in-law of Rabbi Yechezkel Reich, rabbi of Bánovce nad Bebravou (Banowitz), son of R. Jacob Koppel Charif, rabbi of Vrbové, author of "Chiddushei Yaavetz"). He studied at the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin, served as rabbi of Keszthely in western Hungary, and later moved to London. He published several articles and historical and Torah studies in "HaTzofeh LeBeit Yisrael" and other platforms.


[16], 285, [3] pages, [2] blank leaves; [52] pages. Approx. 15 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Minor wear. Open tears to four leaves (large tear to one of the leaves), affecting text, repaired with paper. Original parchment binding, with minor blemishes.


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Early Printed Books – 16th and 17th Centuries
Early Printed Books – 16th and 17th Centuries