Lexicon chaldaicum talmudicum et rabbinicum

All notes by Chaim Meiselman: notes Added t.p., engraved. This is the second edition of the Lexicon-Dictionary of the Chaldaic-Talmudic-Rabbinic literature by Johann Buxtorf the Elder. It expands upon the first edition (Basel 1613) and includes emendations and additions by Johann Buxtorf the Younger. Full-folio illustrated half-title facing the title. Two miniatures, one with Abraham’s tree (Eshel) and the other with a burning Sodom flanking a crown-miniature of the Tower of Babel; Daniel (holding a panel with roaring lions) and Ezra holding a bound volume; a miniature of Solomon consecrating the Temple is below. Printed in double-column Latin-Hebrew-Aramaic passages; fonts regulate between italics and bold, and vowelized and unvowelized (Nikud). With indices and an introduction.