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Kalendariu[m] Hebraicum, opera Sebastiani Munsteri ex Hebraeorum penetralibus iam rece[n]s in lucem aeditum: quo no[n] tam Hebraice studiosis quam Historiographis & Astronomiae peritis subservire poterit. Basilease Apud Io. Frob. 1527 4to (200x140); [8], 200, [14] (of 16) pp., missing colophon. Signature: a-z4, A-D4, E3 (missing E4, colophon). Quire A (pp. 177-184) bound upside-down. Woodcut printer’s device on title page, woodcut initials, 2 woodcut folding plates, large - full-page woodcuts illustrations. The illustrations on the last 14 pp. depict lunar eclipses, the last one (front of E3) are empty, possibly to be filled with future eclipses. Title and text in Latin and Hebrew. Stamp on title page and last page Ex Bibl Ios Ren Card Imperialis; two other stamps on last page, in Russian. Contemporary vellum. Upper margin of first few pages browned and brittle. The missing colophon, with the printer’s device (repeated) is replaced by a skillfully made facsimile. Very good copy.

Only edition of the first printed ibbur treatise (“ ‘Ibbur’ is the intercalation of a day in a month, making it thirty days, and of a month in a year. The principal object of the calendar was to regulate these two points” - searchingthescriptures.org). The aim of the book was to provide Christian readers with information about the Jewish calendar and Jewish chronology; “He intended the book to be a small compendiumof useful information about the Jeweish calender and Jewish cronology, with primary sources in Hebrew, and Latin translations on facing pages that would be useful for Christian humanist students and for theologians.” (Carlebach, p. 49). The book compares the Christian solar calendar and the Jewish lunar calendar and shows Christian and Jewish holidays; solar and lunar eclipses are also described. An abbreviated version of Seder Olam Zuta (an anonymous ancient Jewish chronicle from around the year 800) and parts of Abraham ibn Daud’s Sefer ha-qabbalah are also included. In the afterward the author acknowledges his teacher Johannes Stöffler as the source of the beautiful plates and of the illustrations depicting lunar and solar eclipses. In the centre of the woodcut plate opposite page 52, can be found one of the earliest views of Heidelberg. Sebastian Münster, a German cosmographer, philologist, humanist and Hebraist, studied in Heidelberg, and taught in Heidelberg, Pforzheim and Basel. His first publications all dealt with the field of Hebrew studies; his first publication were a translation into Latin of a Hebrew grammar book, a Hebrew grammar and a Hebrew dictionary. Johannes Stöffler (1452-1531) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, manufacturer of celestial globes and astronomical instruments, and pastor; he was the first professor of astronomy at the University of Tübingen. PROVENANCE: Cardinal Giuseppe Renato Imperiali (1651-1737) was born into an aristocratic family. He was made a Cardinal by Pope Alexander VIII in 1690 and later, in 1701, appointed by Pope Clement XI to the position of Prefect of the Congregation of Buon Governo; in this position, he controlled funding for public works projects in the Papal States. He had a rich library: “In the early 18th century, the I. also acquired a leading role in Roman cultural life thanks to its library, which was assembled in just a few years but quickly established itself as one of the largest in Rome. ... In 1711, when Giusto Fontanini published its catalogue, the Imperiali library contained more than 15,000 volumes, mainly on law, philosophy and literature. The library was an open structure, capable of promoting encounters between men of letters, thanks in part to high-level scholars such as Fontanini himself and Domenico Giorgi, who were strongly committed as publicists in the service of the Papacy.” REF.: VD 16 M 6688; searchingthescriptures.org https://searchingthescriptures.org › wp-content › uploads › 2024 › 05 › The-Biblical-Calendar.pdf; ELISHEVA CARLEBACH Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe Harvard University Press, 2011, pp. 49-50; STEFANO TABACCHI Imeriali, Giuseppe Renato In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Seller ref. MC0925)

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