Michlol Yofi [linguistic commentary to the Bible]

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $1,400

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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. Scholarly marginalium on f.162r. On final page, censor's signature.

references

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

summary

Michlol Yofi incorporates much of David Kimchi’s Sepher HaShorashim, 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. Closely shaved with some loss, tear on final leaf. Modern boards. Folio

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