Sefer ha-shorashim / ḥibro ha-ḥakham ha-gadol rabi Daṿid Ḳimḥi ze.tsa.l. ; ṿe-hu ḥeleḳ sheni mi-Sefer ha-Mikhlol ...
ספר השרשים ... : והוא חלק שני מספר המכלול...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kimhi, David, approximately 1160-approximately 1235, author.

Levita, Elijah, 1468 or 1469-1549, author of afterword, colophon, etc.

Contributor:

Giustiniani, Marco Antonio, active 1543-1552, printer.

Language:

Aramaic

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Hebrew language--Dictionaries.

Hebrew language.

Genre:

Dictionaries

Penn Provenance:

Annenberg Research Institute (stamp) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)

Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (New York, N.Y.) (bookplate) (CAJS Rare Folio copy)

Physical Description:

[1] leaf, 5-548 cols, [1] leaf : ; 32 cm (fol.)

Manufacture:

Nidpas be-Ṿenitsiʼah, ha-ʻir ha-gedolah ha-mehulalah, asher hi taḥat memshelet ha-śerarah yar.h., ti-gadel ṿe-tinaśe malkhutah, amen : [Marco Antonio Giustiniani], ba-ḥodesh Marḥeshṿan bi-shenat 5307 li-yetsirah [that is, October 1546] bi-vet ben mesheḳ bet ha-adon Marḳo Anṭonio Yośṭinian

נדפס בויניציאה, העיר הגדולה המהוללה, אשר היא תחת ממשלת השררה יר"ה, תגדל ותנשא מלכותה, אמן : בבית משק בית האדון מארקו אנטוניאו יושטיניאן, בחודש מרחשון בשנת הש"ז ליצירה

Other Title:

additional title (title page): Thesaurus linguae sanctae sive dictionarium Hebreum

Language Note:

Text in Hebrew, with commentary on Aramaic portions of the Bible following Hebrew dictionary.

Notes:

Title page inside woodcut frame (leaf vine and grape clusters; architechture; urn with wheat sheaves; cornucopiae); Giustiniani's printing device at lower center.

Unpaginated (columns numbered); quotes vocalized; printed in two columns; citations in margins.

Edited, with annotations, and with a colophon poem, by Elijah Levita.

Signatures: [alif]1-[yod vav]16⁸ [yod zayin]17¹⁰ (l. [yod zayin]1710v blank).

Local Notes:

CAJS Rare Folio imperfect: missing the first two gatherings (first extant folio is [gimel]31); deep water damage and leaf serration; many gatherings blighted, with the entirety of the lower portion of item mutilated. Stained on final folio.

CAJS Rare Folio copy with: Avraham bar Yehudah Shats, of Ḳremnits. Sefer Ḥibure leḳeṭ ([Lublin] : ʻAl yede ha-r.r. Tsevi bar Avraham Ḳalonimus Yafeh ze.tsa.l. ha-meḥoḳeḳ, [5371-5372, that is, 1610 or 1611-1612]

CAJS Rare Folio copy formerly owned by the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate), RBR 2961A; Annenberg Research Institute (stamp). Note by Yeshayahu Vinograd (1933-2020) slipped in.

CAJS Rare Folio copy bound in a 19th century green marbled binding, with rough burlap spine; manuscript shelfmark on spine ("ספר מכלול נביאים אחרונים"), and additional number ticked ("1486").

CAJS Rare Folio copy with bookplate of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction.

CAJS Rare Folio with effaced pencil signature on final leaf verso ("אליהו הלוי...").

Cited in:

Habermann, A.M. ha-Madpis Daniyel Bombirgi u-reshimat sifre bet defuso, 188

Steinschneider, M. Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 4821 : 49

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Venice 298

Constituent Unit:

container of: Avraham bar Yehudah Shats, of Ḳremnits. Sefer Ḥibure leḳeṭ ([Lublin] : ʻAl yede ha-r.r. Tsevi bar Avraham Ḳalonimus Yafeh ze.tsa.l. ha-meḥoḳeḳ, [5371-5372, that is, 1610 or 1611-1612]

OCLC:

1169747560