1527 SEBASTIAN MUNSTER Kalendarium Hebraicum antique ILLUSTRATED HEBREW CALENDAR

Munster, Sebastian

 Kalendarium Hebraicum, opera Sebastiani Munsteri ex Hebraeorum penetralibus iam recens in lucem aeditum...

Hokhmat ha-mazalot bi-tekufot u-me'ubarot ve-ha-kevo'ot (hebraice).

In Latin and Hebrew.

Untitled.

Basel, Johann Froben; 1527

Pages 9-82, pages 87-200, 8 additional leaves.


15th-century half-parchment from a Gothic manuscript with red and black handwriting , with manuscript title plate.

-- VD 16 M 6688. Adams M 1933. Burmeister 44. Zinner 1342. –

Only edition of the calendar by Sebastian Munster (1488-1552).


– The title page, four unnumbered leaves, and five numbered leaves are missing.


Slightly browned due to the paper, some foxing and damp staining

Size 6 by 8 inches

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An early Christian exposition on the Hebrew calendar and Jewish history.


Sebastian Munster (1488-1552) was a prominent and prolific German Humanist, cartographer, cosmographer, and Christian Hebraist. His Hebraic scholarship included a wide range of grammatical, lexicographical, philosophical, historical, and biblical works.

In the present lot, Hokhmat ha-mazzalot, completed in Heidelberg in 1526, Munster collected texts treating various aspects of the Hebrew calendar and Jewish history, translated most of them into Latin, and appended his own essays on related topics like intercalation and conjunction.

The book includes extracts from the anonymous historical work Seder olam zuta; Rabbi Abraham Ibn Daud’s (ca. 1110-1180) Sefer/seder ha-kabbalah; several manuscript sources on New Moons, tekufot (seasonal turning points), and the different types of years in the Jewish calendrical system; and the treatment of solar and lunar eclipses found in Johann Stoeffler’s Calendarium Romanum magnum (Oppenheim, 1518)
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