Dikduk Eliyahu… Sepher Habachur [grammar]

LEVITA, ELIJAH BACHUR.

Paulus Fagius

Isny

1542

Second edition, with added material.

Vinograd, Isny 13; Mehlman, 1232; Adams E-117.

Grammatical treatise written at the request of the enlightened Pope Leo X and first published in Rome in 1518. This 1542 expanded edition is divided into four essays with a total of 52 sections (corresponding to the numerical value of the author’s first name). The work discusses such issues as the nature of Hebrew verbs, the changes in the vowel-points of the different conjugations, and regular and irregular nouns. The new introduction to this edition contains biographical insights, noting that in the decades since the first edition, the author is now pleased to expand on ideas that in his earlier years he was not as familiar.