Michlol Yofi [linguistic commentary to the Bible]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,200

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author

IBN MELECH, SOLOMON

printer

Moses ben Elazar Parnas

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1549

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within floriated woodcut border. Double columns. Key words provided with nikud (vowel points). Previous owners' marks on title. Numerous scholarly Hebrew marginalia in Sephardi hand; some Italian marginalia

references

Vinograd, Const. 199; Yaari, Const.148; Adams S-1418

summary

It appears that ibn Melech made extensive use of the early grammarian, David Kimchi’s Sepher ha-Shorashim, 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

ff.192. Stains. Recent morocco. Folio

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