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BK324. Preface in Latin, followed by Hebrew and Latin columns on every page. Halihot Olam [= Eternal Ways] / im mevo hagmara / Sive/ ClavisTalmudica / complectens / formulas, loca.Dialectica & Rhetorica / Latine reddita per / Constantinum l'Empereur ab Oppyck, / S.T.D. & Controversiarum Judaicarum Pro- / fessorem in Academia Lugdunensi. Lugduni Batavorum, [=Leiden] / 1634 [=shin tzadik dalet] [by Yeshua ben Yosef HaLevi With Samuel ha-Nagid. Mevo ha-Gemara "Introduction to Talmud"] / Clavis Talmudica [Key to the Talmud]. First 9 leaves are unpaginated. The verso of the 10th leaf was paginated as 1 by an early owner, who continued the pagination, in a truly beautiful hand, through page 19. The leaf that follows page 19 is unpaginated. The next leaf is a Hebrew and Latin title page and its verso has the printed pagination 2. It is the 21st leaf of the book. So it's: [20] leaves, [1]-232 pages, [12] leaves. Total: 296 pages. Bilingual book. Various markings on pastedown endpaper. Attractive very old ¾ leather plus marbled paper. Steinschneider 5817,7 Column 1393; Fuks 50 ; Friedberg; Vinograd THESAURUS v. 2, page 378, Leiden number 39. Halihot Olam (klalim baTalmud). Leiden, Bonaventura Elzevir. With Latin. Latin translation by Constantin L¿Empereur van Oppyck. [Talmudic methodology], FIRST LATIN EDITION. Title in red and black. Hebrew and Latin translation face-a-face. The Mevo ha-Gemara of R. Samuel ha-Nagid of Granada (993-1055) was based on an earlier work (extant only in fragmentary form) by R. Samuel ben Chofni Gaon (died 1013), Gaon of the famed Sura academy in Babylonia, and father-in-law of Hai Gaon. See EJ, Volume XIV, columns 807-808/ R. Yeshuah Halevi was an Algerian Talmudist who arrived in Castille in 1467. See N. Z. Friedmann, Otzar Harabanim, page 246, number 11722. Constantine L'Empereur van Oppyck (1591-1648) was a Dutch Christian Hebraist. He translated the following Hebrew works into Latin: Mishanah, Tractates Midoth and Bava Kama; the Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela; Ibn Yachya's Commentary to the Book of Daniel; the commentaries of Abravanel and Alsheich to Isaiah; and finally, the work of the grammarian Moses Kimchi. See EJ, Volume VIII, column 42. Seller Inventory # 005395
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