Sepher Meturgamon [Aramaic dictionary]

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Lot 134

LEVITA, ELIJAH BACHUR

Sepher Meturgamon [Aramaic dictionary]

With the Author’s introduction in Hebrew. FIRST EDITION. With woodcut device by Fagius on last leaf. A wide-margined copy ff. (4), 164, (2). Some staining, early inscriptions on title. Later calf, scuffed. Folio Vinograd, Isny 6

Isny: P. Fagius 1541

Est: $600 - $900

A dictionary of the Aramaic words found in the Targumim: Jonathan, Onkelos and Jerusalem. In his introduction, Levita delves into the authorship of Targum Jerusalem to the Pentateuch and Writings, as well as other matters pertaining to the composition and dating of the various Aramaic translations of the Bible. Levita states that his is the first Aramaic dictionary since R. Nathan of Rome's Aruch, remarking that the Aruch was primarily concerned with the Aramaic of the Talmud and only peripherally with that of the Targumim