Bidspirit auction | Michlol – Venice, 1545 –

Michlol – Venice, 1545 – Large-Format Edition / Sefer HaShorashim by the Radak – Venice, 1545 – Printed by Bomberg - Both parts of the Michlol by R. David Kimchi – the Radak (Sefer HaDikduk, also known as Michlol, and Sefer HaShorashim), printed by Daniel Bomberg, in one volume: • Michlol, on Hebrew grammar, by the Radak, with commentary by R. Eliyahu Ashkenazi (Bachur). Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1545. Large format. A small-format edition was printed concurrently. Praise and poem by R. Shlomo son of Mazal Tov from Constantinople 1493 edition printed on last leaf, followed by colophon. • Sefer HaShorashim, second part of the Michlol by the Radak. Venice: Daniel Bomberg by Cornelio Adelkind, 1546. Two poems in praise of edition by R. Eliyahu Bachur printed on last leaf, followed by colophon. At top of title page of Sefer HaShorashim, early ownership inscriptions in Ashkenazic cursive script: ”Yaakov son of R. Eliezer Shalit Heilprun” and his son ”Avraham Heilprun” – the father may be R. Yaakov Heilprin of Lublin (d. 1636), son of R. Eliezer Lipman Heilprin of Lublin, a relative of R. Meir (Maharam) of Lublin and an ancestor of R. Yechiel Heilprin, author of Seder HaDorot. For another autograph by him, see Lot 98. Next to both signatures is another ownership inscription (in early Ashkenazic script contemporaneous with printing): ”Mordechai son of my elderly father Meir… Nikolsburg”. Two books in one volume. Michlol: 69 leaves. Sefer HaShorashim: 143, [1] leaf. Colorful edges. Approx. 27 cm. Michlol in good condition, Sefer HaShorashim in good-fair condition. Stains, including light dampstains to Sefer HaShorashim. Tears to title page of Sefer HaShorashim, including open tear affecting title frame and text on verso of leaf, repaired with paper (another repair across inner margins of title page). Light scraping of stamps from title page of Michlol. Close trimming, affecting printed marginal notes, to several leaves of Michlol and many leaves of Sefer HaShorashim. New binding with leather spine (wear and defects to spine).