Auction 65 · Lot 89

(RaDa”K). Sepher HaShorashim [Biblical lexicon and grammar]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,000

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author

KIMCHI, DAVID.

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1529

Description

Printed in two columns. Previous owners’ inscriptions including a memorial for the deceased, 1628-40.

references

Vinograd, Venice 140; Habermann, Bomberg 147.

summary

Influential Hebrew lexicographical work. The Provencal exegete and grammarian R. David Kimchi (1160? -1235?), was a life-long anti-Christian polemicist. For example in the present work, under the entry “elem” (column 376), the author, quoting his father R. Joseph Kimchi, derides the Christian assertion that the word “almah” (a young girl) found in Isaiah Chap 7:14 refers to a virgin birth. Unsurprisingly, the offending lines are struck out in this copy by the ever-watchful Church censor.

ff. (1), 5-570 cols., pp. 3. Some staining, censored in places, lower marginal repairs on many leaves, final leaf from another copy. Modern boards. Folio.

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