Sepher Michlol [grammar]

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

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

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Lot 194

KIMCHI, DAVID

Sepher Michlol [grammar]

Edited by Elijah Levita. Latin marginalia on f.2r. Red ruling by hand. ff. 268, (1). Title laid to size. Light stains. Contemporary vellum with later velllum ties, discolored. 8vo Vinograd, Venice 246; Haberman, Bomberg 172

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1545

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $800

The penultimate page consists of an appreciation by R. Solomon ben Mazal Tov, who puns on the adage in Ethics of the Fathers, “If there is no flour (kemach), there is no Torah.” See I.D. Markon, "R. Solomon ben Mazal Tov" in: Alexander Marx Jubilee Volume (1950) p. 335, no. 9.