Hebraica Volume 9 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...Halis, Libraria Orphanotrophei, 1818. E. Hntter's Editions. Several older editions contributed to the formation of Hutter's Bibles: a. Via sancta quam non praeteribunt immundi, cum sit pro Mis: A qua nee viatores, nee stulti oberrabunt. Sivc Biblia sacra, eleganti et majuscula characterurn forma, qua ad faeilem sanctae linguae et scripturae intelligentiam, novo compendia, primo statim intuitu, literae radicates et serviles, deficientes et quiiscentes: situ et colore discernuntur. Authore E. Huttero, Hamburgi, 1587, fol. As to the outward appearance of that edition, it is splendid. The whole is divided in four parts, each having a title-page giving in Hebrew and Latin, the contents of the same. In the margin the number of chapters is marked and every fifth verse. The text is taken from the editions of Bomberg, Miinster, Stephen, etc., as the following passage indicates in the preface, p. 2: --"Deinde etiam exemplaria Venetiana, Parisiensia, Antwerpiana, etc., tanquam omnium optima et correctissima, quibus in corrigendo usi sumus, cum hac editione conferas, et reperies, si recte inspexeris, ultra aliquot mille diversitates, quibus exemplaria inter se dissident; si vero cum his contuleris Manuscripta, plures invenies. Quas omnes in hac editione vel notare, vel mutare, vel de iisdem temere sine adhibita justa explicatione, judicare, non potui, nee debui. Occurrunt praeterea hinc inde in Bibliorum transcursu variae et diversae lectiones, et difficilioris intellectus vocabula, partim e viris Masoreth, partim a Babbinis et interpretibus, partim a nobie ex collatione exemplarium animadversa est observata, quae plerumque circulo consignavi." This edition was only printed once, but was published in 1588, 1596 and 1603 with new title-pages. The latter edition...