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Phil Barber
Boston, Mass.
May '01
$12.50

Bible. Derekh Ha-Kodesh: Biblia Hebrew.
Hamberg: Jacobus Lucius, 1587. f0
See #4 Ref: D+M. 5108, Adams 1235 R-Petre 243, Berkowitz, 171
Copy: Brit. Lib., Lib of Congress, Yale Brunet I 858.

Ed. by Elias Hutter. Known as Hutter's Hebrew Bible.
D + M. #5108 Via Sancta //// sive Biblia Sacra eleanti ....
Typis Elianis, per Iohannem Saxonem
Printed at the Hamberg press of Jacobus Lucius
In this ed. the root letters are pritned in
thick type + the inglectional letters in hollow
type; and when a root letter in any word does
not appear, it is pritned in small type above
the line.
Title, on verso (dated 10 Aug 1587) - 5 ff. Text
1572 (really 1568) pp. 790 ff. 373x238mm.
- SOme copies fo this Hebrew Bible were afterwards
used to form a supplement to the Hamberg
Polyglot of 1596.
- Reissued with fresh titles in 1558, 1596 +1603.

D+M #1425 Biblia Sacra Greece, Latine + Germanice; opera
David is Wolderi (Pastor of the church of St.
Peter at Hamberg)
See my #4 Jacobus Lucius Juni pritner, 1596 f0-Together with this triglot, the publisher issued the
Hebrew O.T. of 1587 bearing a fresh (+ false)
title, thus making the whole publication appear
a tetraglot in 2 vol. But it seems that other
copies of the triglot were issued separately.
- THis is the ealriest illustrated Polyglot Bible.