Michlol Yofi [linguistic commentary to the Bible]

AUCTION 31 | Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew and Other Printed Books

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Lot 172

IBN MELECH, SOLOMON

Michlol Yofi [linguistic commentary to the Bible]

FIRST EDITION. Title within floriated woodcut border. Double columns. Key words provided with nikud (vowel points). Previous owners' marks on title. Numerous scholarly Hebrew marginalia in Sephardi hand; some Italian marginalia ff.192. Stains. Recent morocco. Folio Vinograd, Const. 199; Yaari, Const.148; Adams S-1418

Constantinople: Moses ben Elazar Parnas 1549

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,200

It appears that ibn Melech made extensive use of the early grammarian, David Kimchi’s Sepher ha-Shorashim, to the extent of co-opting some of Kimchi’s translations to French (or rather Provencal). For examples, see notes by Biesenthal and Lebrecht, Sepher ha-Shorashim (Berlin, 1847), cols. 820-21