Avenarius, Johann
[Sefer ha-shorashim]
Hoc est, Liber Radicum seu Lexicon Ebraicum.
Witebergæ: Haeredes Johannis Cratonis (The Heirs of Johann Krafft the Elder) ; 1588
1st edition
Woodcut on title and colophon.
Folio: 9 by 13 1/4"
Original blind-stamped pigskin over pasteboard; shelf-worn, ex-libris cut from title margin and conserved, lacking front free endpaper, some toning, generally sound otherwise.
Text in Latin (with Hebrew). Occasional quotations in Greek and German.
[8] lvs, 870 pp, [1] leaf (colophon)
Woodcut printer’s device at title, a larger half-page version appearing as a vignette at the colophon;
woodcut lettrines.
Hebrew lexicon organized by triliteral roots. Each alphabetic section is headed by a biblical passage beginning with that letter. The author's approach is idiosyncratic, and "proceeds on the principle that the Hebrew, being the primitive language, from which all others have been derived, may be explained by the aid of the Greek, Latin, German, [and] English" (Jenks).
"Hoefer notes that the work was highly praised by the celebrated classical scholar Isaac Casaubon, who also took a great interest in Hebraic studies.
The protestant theologian and Hebraist Johann Habermann (Avenarius; 1516-1590) was professor of theology at Jena, and archbishop of Zeitz.
Some of his works were quite popular: his celebrated prayerbook went through several edition between 1578 and 1610; and his Hebrew Grammar was printed at least five times between 1562 and 1597. As with many of his Lutheran brethren, Habermann sought high-level patronage for his Hebraica, dedicating the present volume to duke August of Saxony (1526-1586).

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