❧ Description
Anonymous dictionary of Hebrew rhymes — the Ba'al Kenafayim — accompanied by the Mikhlol of David Kimḥi (Radak, 1160-1235), great treatise of Andalusian Hebrew grammar. Manuscript of 302 leaves, large in-4, 22 lines per page in two columns; unpublished as such. The marginal notes are attributed to Élie Halewy (1477-1549), grammarian born in Padua. The copyist cites only the ancients (up to Maimonides), which suggests a composition at the turn of the 15th-16th centuries.
Provenance: 1 Acquisition by Samuel David Luzzatto, Padua 2 Sale by Isaia Luzzatto, 1869 3 Buyer to be identified
Codicological note — origin to be specified; script: Sephardic; leaves: 302 folios; dimensions: large in-4 · 2 columns; early catalogues: Joseph Luzzatto Catalogue 1868 · no. 7; editorial status: Unpublished.
— Source: Mémoires des Manuscrits Juifs du Moyen-Âge Maghrébin (MMJMM / Collectif GMPL), https://mmjmm.org/corpus/catalogue/to-locate-luzzatto-7.
