Auction 30 · Lot 222

Sepher Meturgamon [Aramaic dictionary]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $1,000

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author

LEVITA, ELIJAH BACHUR

printer

P. Fagius

Place

Isny

Publication

1541

Description

With the Author’s introduction in Hebrew. Latin (usually lacking). FIRST EDITION. With woodcut device by Fagius on last leaf. A wide-margined copy. Scattered marginalia throughout

references

Vinograd, Isny 6

summary

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, and other 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 Aruch. He also remarks that the Aruch was primarily concerned with the Aramaic of the Talmud and only peripherally with that of the Targumim

ff. (4), 164, (2). Bottom margin of last leaf torn, trace stained. Later boards, Folio

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