(RaDa”K). Sepher HaShorashim. - Dictionarium Hebraicum. Translated into Latin by Sebastian Münster.

KIMCHI, DAVID

Froben

Basle

1564

Latin interspersed with Hebrew. Reads from right to left. Paginated in an early, neat hand. Manuscript index at end.

Vinograd, Basle 109; Prijs, 112.

David Kimchi built on the lexicographical work of his predecessor R. Jonah ibn Janach, et al, producing by far, the most popular work of this genre. A fundamental work, it was an essential part of any scholar’s library in the 15th-16th centuries - indeed no other Hebrew lexicographical study influenced Christian Hebraists in their examination of the sacred tongue as did Kimchi's Sepher HaShorashim. Münster translated Kimchi’s Sepher HaShorashim from Hebrew to Latin and embellished upon the original.