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ISAAC NATHAN BEN KALONYMOS (fl. 1450). In Hebrew: Me'ir netib hanikrah konkordansish (Bible concordance). [Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1523]. 2° (353 x 252mm). Title within architectural woodcut border, woodcut cartouche at beginning of text (lacks final blank, lower margin of title and following 5 leaves crudley repaired, some words on 1.2 nearly erased, stain on title and 2 following leaves, some waterstaining in first half, light marginal worming in last quarter, affecting text of last few leaves, a few leaves lightly browned, lightly spotted). 19th-century cloth (old spine relaid, rear cover detached, spine worn). Provenance: stamp in upper margin of title -- some old manuscript scribbles in outer margin.
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST HEBREW CONCORDANCE TO THE OLD TESTAMENT. The Hebrew scholar Isaac Nathan (incorrectly named Mordecai on the title), a native of Avignon, was familiar with Christian scholarly circles and engaged in theological polemics with his Christian peers. He composed this concordance between 1437 and 1448 in order to provide a tool for Hebrew-speaking Jews in their arguments with Christians. The text, which is based on a concordance of the Old and New Testaments by the Franciscan Arlotto de Prato, is ordered according to the words' etymological roots and stems, and the books of the Bible are arranged in the order of the Latin Vulgate. Its publication added to the corpus of important Hebrew texts first published by Daniel Bomberg, who had printed the first Rabbinical Bible in 1517-18, and whose editions of the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud were completed at around this time. A Latin-Hebrew version of the concordance, edited by Anton Reuchlin, was first printed in 1556 by Heinrich Petri in Basel. Adams B1951; BL STC Italian p. 104.
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST HEBREW CONCORDANCE TO THE OLD TESTAMENT. The Hebrew scholar Isaac Nathan (incorrectly named Mordecai on the title), a native of Avignon, was familiar with Christian scholarly circles and engaged in theological polemics with his Christian peers. He composed this concordance between 1437 and 1448 in order to provide a tool for Hebrew-speaking Jews in their arguments with Christians. The text, which is based on a concordance of the Old and New Testaments by the Franciscan Arlotto de Prato, is ordered according to the words' etymological roots and stems, and the books of the Bible are arranged in the order of the Latin Vulgate. Its publication added to the corpus of important Hebrew texts first published by Daniel Bomberg, who had printed the first Rabbinical Bible in 1517-18, and whose editions of the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud were completed at around this time. A Latin-Hebrew version of the concordance, edited by Anton Reuchlin, was first printed in 1556 by Heinrich Petri in Basel. Adams B1951; BL STC Italian p. 104.
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