Tzemach David / Dittionario Novo Hebraico.

DE POMIS, DAVID.

Giovanni di Gara

Venice

1587

FIRST EDITION. Arms of Pope Sixtus V on f. 2r and of the De Pomis (“Min Hatapuchim”) Family on f. 5v. (Yaari, Hebrew Printers’ Marks, no. 41)

Vinograd, Venice 717; Habermann, di Gara 97a; Adams P-1823.

Celebrated Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin and Italian dictionary presenting definitions from Kimchi’s Shorashim, Levita’s Tishbi, and Nathan ben Yechiel’s Aruch, and adding numerous historical and scientific observations and discourses. Trained as a medical doctor, David de Pomis’s expositions of Biblical and Talmudic terms comprise a good deal of curious and interesting medieval scientific lore.