Hebrew Grammar

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(GRAMMAR)

Place

Central Europe

Publication

18th Century

Description

Manuscript, Aschkenazic cursive script. Old German inscription on back fly leal reads: "[illegible] Matties…von Bayreuth, datum…1764."

summary

This anonymous work is divided into the following sections or "She'arim": Othiyoth (letters), tenu'oth (vowels), shemoth (nouns), pe'alim (verbs), and neginoth (cantillation). On f.7v. the author cites Ibn Ezra's critique in Sepher Tzachuth of Judah ibn Chayuj. On f. 51r. he writes of R. David Kimchi (Radak): "We drink from his waters, because the Chacham R. Solomon wrote concerning him, 'If there is no flour (kemach), there is no Torah.'" (Source: Mishnah, Avoth 3:21)

ff. (55). 24 lines per page. Ex library. Sepia on coarse paper. Foxed. Marginal worming, text slightly affected. Contemporary calf, rebound. 4to

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