(RaDa”K). Sepher HaShorashim. - Dictionarium Hebraicum. Translated into Latin by <<Sebastian Münster.>>

Auction 85 | Thursday, November 07th, 2019 at 1:00pm

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KIMCHI, DAVID

(RaDa”K). Sepher HaShorashim. - Dictionarium Hebraicum. Translated into Latin by <<Sebastian Münster.>>

Latin interspersed with Hebrew. Reads from right to left. Paginated in an early, neat hand. Manuscript index at end. ff.(496). Lightly discolored, previous owner’s marks on title. Later calf, rehinged, worn. 12mo. Vinograd, Basle 109; Prijs, 112.

Basle: Froben 1564

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $1,100

David Kimchi built on the lexicographical work of his predecessor R. Jonah ibn Janach, et al, producing by far, the most popular work of this genre. A fundamental work, it was an essential part of any scholar’s library in the 15th-16th centuries - indeed no other Hebrew lexicographical study influenced Christian Hebraists in their examination of the sacred tongue as did Kimchi's Sepher HaShorashim. Münster translated Kimchi’s Sepher HaShorashim from Hebrew to Latin and embellished upon the original.