(RaDa”K). Sepher Ha’Shorashim [“Book of Roots;” Biblical lexicon and grammar]

KIMCHI, DAVID

Daniel Bomberg

Venice

1546

Printed in two columns. Title within woodcut arhitectural arch. Opening blank with lengthy Latin inscription situating Kimchi within the tradition of grammarian ibn Janah, et al. Scholarly marginalia in a few hands, Latin and Hebrew (viz. f.212v.)

Vinograd, Venice 298; Habermann, Bomberg 298; Adams K-45

David Kimchi’s purpose in composing the Shorashim, the second section of his philological treatise the Michlol, was “to provide a middle ground between the lengthy and detailed treatises of Jonah ibn Jonach and Judah ben David Chayyuj, and the extreme brevity and concision of Abraham ibn Ezra.” EJ, Vol. X, col. 1002. The work was held in high esteem by later writers