Mikhlol
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 352, item 1
Publisher: Azriel ben Joseph Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser
Published: 1490
Place of publication: Naples
Language: heb
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Hebrew language; Grammar
Work titles: Sefer ha-shorashim
Notes: Text entirely in Hebrew characters.

Text is known in English as the Book of roots or Compendium, a Hebrew grammar and Biblical dictionary.

Previously published in Rome about 1480; this printing edited and with notes by Samuel ben Meir Latif.

Folded in eighteen gatherings quired in eights.

Hain, 6033.

Proctor, 6734.

Goff, Heb-39.

GW, 8172.

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), id00102730.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, Heb-21-22.

Imperfect: wanting first leaf of text (supplied in manuscript); wormed, affecting text; several leaves remargined.

Imperfect: leaves 1/1 (blank), 1/8, 8/8, 9/1, 14/5-8, 15/1, 18/8 wanting.

Bound in old blind-stamped leather (rebacked and badly worn).

Bound in 19th-century canvas, edges sprinkled red.