Michlol Yofi [linguistic commentary to the Bible]

AUCTION 46 | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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Lot 157

IBN MELECH, SOLOMON

Michlol Yofi [linguistic commentary to the Bible]

FIRST EDITION. Title within floriated woodcut border. Scholarly marginalium on f.162r. On final page, censor's signature. ff.192. Closely shaved with some loss, tear on final leaf. Modern boards. Folio Vinograd, Const. 199; Yaari, Const.148; Adams S-1418

Constantinople: Moses ben Elazar Parnas 1549

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,400

Michlol Yofi incorporates much of David Kimchi’s Sepher HaShorashim, 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.