(RaDa”K). Sepher HaShorashim [“Book of Roots”: Biblical Lexicon]

Estimate: $40,000–$50,000
Hammer price: $47,500

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author

KIMCHI, DAVID.

printer

Azriel ben Joseph Aschkenazi Gunzenhauser

Place

Naples

Publication

1490

Description

Second Edition. Text in square Hebrew typeface, Biblical references in sidebars in Rashi script. The Elkan Nathan Adler-Wineman Family copy (see Kestenbaum & Company, Sale XXVI, Lot 39)

references

Vinograd, Naples 12; Goff 39; Goldstein 72; Offenberg 105; Steinschneider, p. 873, no. 4821, 43; Thes. A66; Wineman Cat. 39

summary

COMPLETE COPY OF THE Sepher haShorashim. David Kimchi built on the lexicographical work of his predecessor R. Jonah ibn Janach, et al, producing by far, the most popular work of this genre. A fundamental work, it was an essential part of any scholar’s library in the 15th-16th centuries - indeed no other Hebrew lexicographical study influenced Christian Hebraists in their examination of the sacred tongue as did Kimchi's Sepher HaShorashim

ff. (143). Opening and closing leaves laid to size, few light stains, neat marginal repairs. Recently rebound in magnificent modern blind-tooled cream morocco by Asprey, London, with clasps and hinges and housed in matching folding-case. Folio

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