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Welcome to our Spring K2 Judaica Auction (Kestenbaum Sale number 93) consisting of 226 lots. The subject matter of the auction is divided as follows:
Manuscripts: Lots 1-21
Including ten lots of Pinkas community records (all American), Lots 12-21
Autograph Letters by Rabbinic & Chassidic leaders: Lots 22-77
Americana - Printed Books, Manuscripts & Autograph Letters: Lots 78-96.
Cook-Books (Lots 107-123)
Holocaust-era (Lots 132-151)
Land (and State) of Israel: Lots 152-169
Graphic Art: Lots 188-209.
Including artwork by Yohanan Simon, Chagall, Pilichowski, Abel Pann and Reuven Rubin. Also a magnificent livre-d'artiste by Joseph Budko, issued entirely on vellum, one of just five copies (lot 188)
Ceremonial and Folk Objects: Lots 210-226
Included in the auction are items that relate to Jewish history in: Argentina, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Russia and Spain.
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LOT 104:
BUXTORF, JOHANNES.
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Estimated price :
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200 - $300
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sales tax: 8.875%
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BUXTORF, JOHANNES.
(The Elder). Tiberias sive Commentarius Masorethicus Triplex [commentary to the Tiberian Masorah of the Bible].
Latin interspersed with Hebrew. Text arranged in double columns. Title page with architectural border. Historiated initials; head- and tailpieces.
pp. (8), 108. Stained, title with tape repair and central crease. Modern boards. Tall folio.
Basle: Johann Jacob Decker 1665
Buxtorf devotes this work to the tradition of the Masoretes of Tiberias. In doing so, he made ample use of Elijah Levita’s Masoreth ha-Masoreth (Venice, 1538). Buxtorf divides his work in three: Commentary on the Masorah, Key of the Masorah, and Critical Commentary. Buxtorf was of the view that the Masoretic text is the genuine version of the Bible, though he accepted Levita’s revolutionary theory that the masoretic vocalization and cantillation marks originated with Ezra and the Men of the Great Assembly. See EJ, Vol. IV, col. 1543. This later edition of Buxtorf the Elder’s 1620 original was improved and enlarged from quarto to folio by his son Johannes Buxtorf the Younger (1599-1664), also a Protestant Christian Hebraist. This text became a controversial one between the Younger and Louis Cappel (1585-1658), a French Protestant Hebraist who believed the vowel points and accents were not of the original Hebrew language, but rather added by the Masoretes of Tiberia.
