Mahalach Shevilei HaDa’ath [grammar] by Rabbi Moshe Kimchi. With super-commentary by Rabbi Elijah Levita and an introduction by Benjamin ben Judah. With Latin translation and notes by Constantin L’Empereur.
Leiden: Bonaventura and Abraham Elzevir, 1631.
Title in red and black, woodcut lettrines, with commentary in Hebrew, Latin translation and notes, with occasional passages in Greek, Arabic, and Syriac. Printer’s device on title.
Octavo. [asterisk]8, A-R8 (= 144 leaves). [16], 256, [16]pp.
Copinger, Elzevier, 2630. Fuks/Fuks-Mansfeld 47. Cf. Heller, The 16th Century Hebrew Book 1:123 (first ed. Ortona, 1519). Van Rooden, Theology, Biblical Scholarship and Rabbinical Studies in the 17th Century, esp. pp.185-88. Willems 355.
Provenance: From the library of the celebrated Islamic scholar who specialized in the tradtional literature of the Hadith, G. H. A. Joynboll (1935-2010), with his printed label at the rear endleaf. Item #49250
Contemporary vellum, memorial label at rear endleaf. Initial endleaf rumpled and torn, pastedowns largely perished, 6 blank endleaves (3 preceding and 3 following text block);
but still a nearly fine copy with notably fresh text throughout.
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