<<(RaDa’K).>> Sepher HaShorashim [Biblical lexicon and grammar].

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Lot 204

KIMCHE, DAVID

<<(RaDa’K).>> Sepher HaShorashim [Biblical lexicon and grammar].

Printed in two columns. Hebrew poetry on last page from Elijah Levita written in an early hand. ff. (1), 5-570 cols., pp. 3. Closely trimmed, title laid down with loss of lower (blank) register, many leaves with taped repairs. Early blind-tooled mottled calf over heavy wooden boards with brass bosses. Expertly rebacked. Sm. folio. Vinograd, Venice 140.

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1529

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

Influential Hebrew lexicographical work. The Provencal exegete and grammarian R. David Kimchi (1160? -1235?), was a life-long anti-Christian polemicist. For example in the present work, under the entry “elem” (column 376), the author, quoting his father R. Joseph Kimchi, derides the Christian assertion that the word “almah” (a young girl) found in Isaiah Chap 7:14 refers to a virgin birth. Unsurprisingly, the offending lines are struck out in this copy by the ever-watchful Church censor.