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

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $300

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author

KIMCHI, DAVID

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Gershom ben Moses Soncino

Place

Salonika

Publication

-1534

Description

Another copy. Previous owners’ signatures, inscriptions and stamps in Hebrew and Russian including Mordechai Pinchasof of Samarkand. Manuscript notes in a Sephardic hand containing various acrostics (Notrikin) on final leaf and endpapers.

references

Vinograd, Salonika 45.

summary

An uncensored copy. Remarkably, the passage referred to in the previous lot has here survived intact.

ff. 145 (of 149), the missing leaves (opening two and two in middle) provided in a neat Sephardic hand. Stained, marginal paper repairs in places. Later calf, defective. Sm. folio.

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