Tabula in grammaticen Hebraeam

New issue of the 1539 Wechel edition of this celebrated grammar, first published in Louvain in 1529.

Contemporary full parchment binding, traces of ties, darkened boards, contemporary manuscript vellum endleaf guard showing on the front pastedown; waterstaining up to p. 85, occasionally affecting the pen annotations.  

A precious copy of the Hebrew grammar by the humanist Nicolas Clénard. The great majority of its pages are extensively annotated in Latin by a most studious contemporary owner.

The didactic clarity of this grammar secured its wide popularity: the Tabula spread swiftly and lastingly through Holland, Belgium and France, and as far as Germany. This edition was issued in Paris by Christian Wechel, a specialist in Greek and Hebrew printing, with his printer’s device showing Pegasus above a caduceus flanked by cornucopias, printed on the title page and at the end of the work. 

Seventeenth-century manuscript ownership inscription: the double signature "Charles Henkl", with elaborate flourishes, near the printer’s device at the end of the volume.

Pencil note on the stiffening of the lower cover, "M. Heflt 34 r. Lafayette antiquaire", probably referring to Léon Heflt, owner of the Parisian shop "A la vieille Bretagne" in the early twentieth century, which was indeed located at that address.

L. Bakelants and R. Hoven, Bibliographie des œuvres de Nicolas Clénard, Verviers, 1981, I, no. 6; II, 6
USTC 147823.