Auction 95 Early Printed Books, Chassidut and Kabbalah, Letters and Manuscripts, Engravings and Jewish Ceremonial Objects
Rabbi Yehudah Leon Templo – Principio de Sciencia – Reshit Chochmah – On Hebrew Grammar – Amsterdam, 1703 – Rare
Principio de sciencia: ou, gramathica hebrayca por hum methodo breue, claro, facil, e distincto, by R. Shlomo Yehudah Leon Templo. Amsterdam: Ymanuël Athias, 1703. Portuguese.
Work for study of Hebrew grammar by R. Shlomo Yehudah Leon Templo (d. 1733), an Amsterdam Torah scholar in the early 18th century. Son of R. Yaakov Yehudah Leon Templo (1603-after 1675), known for his pioneering scientific work on the structure of the Tabernacle and Temple (which earned his family the name Templo). R. Shlomo Yehudah was a disciple of R. Yitzchak Aboab de Fonseca, and worked as a proofreader at the famous press of Immanuel Athias.
63, [1] pages. 20 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear. Parchment wrapper, slightly worn and partially detached.
Rare. To the best of our knowledge and research, this item has not been auctioned off in recent decades (the last documented auction took place in 1926).
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