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MÜNSTER, Sebastian [1489-1552].. Dictionarium Hebraicum...
8vo. [ff. 496]. text in Hebrew & German. printer's device on title & at end. woodcut initials. contemporary blind-stamped pigskin (small stain on lower cover, lacking ties, intermittent light foxing, some leaves with faint marginal dampstain, tiny paper flaw on title with loss of 1 letter). Sixth Edition (first: 1523) of this Hebrew dictionary compiled by the distinguished German geographer, mathematician, Hebraist, linguist, and theologian. Münster was court preacher at Heidelberg, where he also lectured in Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis, and from 1536 until his death he taught at Basel. A disciple of Elias Levita, he was the first German to edit the Hebrew Bible (Basel: 1534-35). He is best known for his 'Cosmographiae', one of the most important scientific geographical works of the Reformation period. Adams M1926. BM STC German p. 633. Burmeister 22.
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