Meturgeman [Aramaic dictionary].

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Lot 146

LEVITA, ELIJAH BACHUR.

Meturgeman [Aramaic dictionary].

<<FIRST EDITION.>> With a foreword in Latin by Fagius and with his woodcut device on last leaf. A wide-margined copy. With the author’s second introduction in Hebrew and Latin at end (usually lacking). Hebrew and Latin marginalia. ff. (6), 164, (2), (6). Few stains. Later vellum-backed boards. Folio. Vinograd, Isny 6.

Isny: P. Fagius 1541

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $1,300

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 Pentateuch and Writings, as well as matters pertaining to the composition and dating of the various Aramaic translations of the Bible. Levita boasts that his is the first Aramaic dictionary since R. Nathan of Rome’s Sephera Aruch, noting that the Aruch was primarily concerned with the Aramaic of the Talmud and only peripherally with that of the Targumim.