Author
Shelomoh ibn Melekh
Uniform title
Mikhlol yofi
Title
Sefer Mikhlol yofi : hofi'a or ha-Torah le-havanat ha-niklra bikhlal / asher hiber ha-akham ha-shalem k.ha-r.R. Shelomoh Ibn Melekh z.l. ; 'im tosefet Leket shikhehah asher hosif 'alav li-shlemut ha-mel'akhah ... Ya'akov Abendanah.
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Perfectio pulchritudinis, seu Commentarius in loca selecta vocesque & res difficiliores S. Scripturæ
Varying form of title
Perfectio pulchritudinis, seu Commentarius in loca selecta vocesque & res difficiliores S. Scripturae
Imprint
Be-Amśṭerdam : Daṿid Tartas, 5444-445 [1683 or 1684-1684 or 1685].
Physical description
[4], 220 leaves ; 30 cm (folio)
Note
Signatures in Hebrew characters and Roman and Arabic numerals: [pi]4 ([pi]2 verso blank) 1[alef]-55[nun-he]4 (11[yod-alef]2 verso blank).
Note
With added title page in Latin and Hebrew: "Mikhlol yofi Perfectio, seu Commentarius in loca selecta vocesque & res difficiliores S. Scripturæ, A R. Selemone Ben Melech cum ... Specilegio, seu rerum præteritatum & intermissarum; authore R. Jacob Abendana. Amstelædame. Anno à Mondi condito 5445" (the first two words are transliterated from the Hebrew).
Note
Foliation in Hebrew characters.
Note
With woodcut historiated title page border.
Note
With head- and tailpieces; printed marginalia.
Note
Last leaf erroneously numbered 120.
Note
Imprint on Latin title page: Amstelædami / Anno à Mundi condito 5445.
Note
With approbations by Buxtorf and four Leiden professors (Abraham van Heyden, Johannes Cocceius, Jacob Golius, Allard Uchtmann), and a Latin dedication to "DD. ordinibus generalibus Foederati Belgii" -- see Fuks for details.
Note
Title is transliterated from the Hebrew.
Citation/references note
Steinschneider, M. Cat. librorum hebraeorum, 2372, 6956/3
Citation/references note
Cowley, 660
Citation/references note
Wolf, J.C. Bibliotheca Hebraea, volume 1, page 1075, number 2003
Citation/references note
Wolf, J.C. Bibliotheca Hebraea, volume 1, page 579
Citation/references note
Fuks-Mansfeld, North Holland, 482
Citation/references note
CLC, S1463
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library donatory label (1899) with inscription “Ex libris viri dilectissimi Thomae Lvck Kingsbvry A M Prebendarii de Vffcvlme qui obdormivit in pace iv die Dec A S MDCCCXCIX D D Helena Maria filia heres Bibliothecae Sarisbvriensis”. "Ecclesiae B.V.M." added in manuscript in gap between “Bibliothecae” and "Sarisbvriensis".
Provenance
Ownership inscription in pencil on pastedown: "T.J. Ormerod / Oct. 1833 / B N C"; with Hebrew inscription in ink below signature.
Binding
18th-century [?] laced-case parchment with paper boards; sewn on 6 supports. Title in manuscript on spine in Latin characters.
Copy-specific note
Pencil notes on pastedown: price 10/6, and fragments of another price (?) 14/ .
Subject
Bible. Old Testament Commentaries.
Added entry--name
Abendana, Jacob, 1630-1695 Leket shikhehah.
Added entry--name
Tarṭas, Daṿid de Ḳasṭro printer.
Added entry--name
Kingsbury, Thomas Luck, 1822-1899 previous owner.
Added entry--name
Kingsbury, Helen Mary, 1857-1929 donor.
Added entry--name
Ormerod, Thomas Johnston, 1810-1874 previous owner.
Added entry--place
Netherlands Amsterdam.
B14451
UKSbSC
20230621141753.2