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Paulus Fagius (1504-1549), translator. Sententiae morales Ben Syrae – Tobias Hebraice.
Isny : Paul Fagius, 1542.
Paulus Fagius, one of the leading Hebrew scholars of the sixteenth century established his Hebrew printing house at Isny in Würtemberg with the help of his Hebrew instructor, Elia Levita. The edition contains the text and its commentary in Hebrew and in Latin translation. In 1549, Paulus Fagius was appointed to Hebrew lectureship in Cambridge, but before he could start to teach he died from the plague. He is buried at St Michael's Church in Cambridge.
The copy on exhibit is bound together with Fagius' Latin translation of the Mishnaic tractate Pirke Avot (Sententiae uere elegantes) published in Isny, 1541.
According to the ownership inscriptions at the back flyleaf and on the parchment cover, it belonged to Jacob Israel Crémieux.
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Title page |
Cover |
Cremieux's signature |
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