(RaDa”K). Sepher HaShorashim.

KIMCHI, DAVID

Marco Antonio Giustiniani

Venice

1547

With extensive, scholarly marginalia in a petite Italian hand throughout occasionally citing R. MENACHEM AZARIAH OF FANO (see below). Printed in two columns. Title within woodcut architectural arch. Hebrew words occasionally provided with nikud (vowel points). Sidebars contain Latin equivalents.

Vinograd, Venice 330.

According to the scholar Dr. Yosef Avivi the marginal notes that appear in this volume in the name of R. Menachem Azariah of Fano are not found in any other printed or manuscript version of this work. Indeed these erudite notes display profound insight and in many cases disagree with other grammarians such as Elijah Bachur. For example, the marginal note to column 490 states “the language of the Bachur … are confused.” The note on column 139 takes issue with a comment of Ya’akov Lombrozo (a Venetian scholar and contemporary of Judah Aryeh Modena). Columns 180, 318 and 546 contain notes with the abbreviated heading “Aleph, Mem, Ayin” which is the abbreviation of “Amar Menachem Azariah.”