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Sefer ha-ʻArukh ha-ḳatsar.
ספר הערוך הקצר.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nathan ben Jehiel, of Rome, 1035-approximately 1110, author.
- Standardized Title:
- ʻArukh. ʻArukh ha-ḳatsar. 1511 (İstanbul, Turkey)
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Hebrew language, Talmudic--Lexicography.
- Hebrew language, Talmudic.
- Hebrew language--Dictionaries.
- Hebrew language.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- [64] leaves ; 19 cm (4to)
- Manufacture:
- [Istanbul, Turkey] : [Shemuʼel Ibn Naḥmiʼaś, Yaʻaḳov ibn Yaḳar], Tamuz 5271 [June 1511]
- [איסטנבול, טורקיה] : [שמואל ן׳ נחמיאש, יעקב ן' יקר], בחדש תמוז שנת אשובה א'ר'ע'ה' צאנך אשמור
- Notes:
- Title from caption (leaf [pi]2, recto).
- Printed in cursive type; headings printed in square type.
- Abridgement of Nathan ben Jehiel's Sefer ha-ʻArukh (the abridger has not been identified).
- Signatures not accounted for.
- Colophon: ״ותשלם מלאכת שמים... על יד הבחור ... ר׳ שמואל בכר׳ דוד ן׳ נחמיאש נע' אומן מלאכת הדפוס ; ועל ידו החזיק הכחם הרופא הר' יעקב ן' יקר יצ"ו שנכנס בממונו לעשות ספר הזה ; והיתה השלמתו בקושטנטין רבתי אשר תחת ממשלת אדוננו המלך שולטן ביזיט ירום הודו בירח תמוז שנת אשובה ארעה׳ צאנך תשמור״. Reigning monarch mentioned -- Bayezid II, Sultan of the Turks, 1447 or 1448-1512.
- On first leaf, verso, a poem in one stanza of four lines, with the acrostic signature of אליה ("אני קטן אשר יהיה לאלף...").
- Local Notes:
- CAJS Rare PJ4935 .A7 1511: Imperfect; missing until letter zayin leaf text begins: "ומטחא וקמחא : ותק..."). Rebound (limp marbled boards); formerly owned by Dropsie / Annenberg (stamp).
- Cited in:
- Ya'ari, A. Ha-Defus ha-'Ivri be-Kushta, 16
- Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 6632 : 8
- Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri, Constantinople 33
- OCLC:
- 85056316
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