Did not realize that the Kennicott Bible (1476) includes Radak's Mikhlol, his work on Hebrew grammar (part of the first part, the systematic grammar). It's lavishly decorated like the rest of the manuscript.
Bodl. MS Kennicott 1, Mikhlol starts fol 438v.
digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/8c264b…
Bodl. MS Kennicott 1, Mikhlol starts fol 438v.
digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/8c264b…
You can read a clearly digitized Bomberg print (Venice, 1545) of the Mikhlol, edited by Elia Levita (Eliyahu ha-Levi) Ashkenazi, himself an interesting person, here at @cjewishhistory:
digipres.cjh.org/delivery/Deliv…
digipres.cjh.org/delivery/Deliv…
If you need the second part of Radak's Mikhlol, Sefer ha-Shorashim, which is a lexicon of verbal roots, here is the Bomberg (Venice, 1546) again edited by Elia Levita:
play.google.com/books/reader?i…
play.google.com/books/reader?i…
And here is a c. 19th-century handwritten manuscript of Elia Levita's nimukim (arguments) about Radak's Sefer ha-Shorashim, @UoMSpecColl Heb. MS 33.
openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0021/html…
openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0021/html…
It goes to show how vital grammar and dictionaries are to understanding core texts. These technical kinds of texts were deeply valued, copied, preserved, used, and in the Kennicott Bible, beautifully illustrated, too.
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