Michlol Yofi [linguistic commentary to the Bible]

AUCTION 41 | Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 1:00

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Lot 151

IBN MELECH, SOLOMON

Michlol Yofi [linguistic commentary to the Bible]

FIRST EDITION. Title within floriated woodcut border. Double columns. Key words provided with nikud. Marginalia in a Yemenite hand (including list of Haftoroth on verso of title) ff.192. Stained, finall two leaves worn and with marginal repairs. Ex-library. Later vellum, gutter split. Folio. * Bound in front: Index to Mirkeveth Ha-Mishnah by Isaac Abrabanel. ff.13. Sabbioneta, 1551(see Vinograd, Sabbioneta 1) Vinograd, Const. 199; Yaari, Const.148; Adams S-1418

Constantinople: Moses ben Elazar Parnas 1549

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,800

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