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NATHAN BEN YECHIEL OF ROME. Sepher Ha’Aruch [Talmudic dictionary]. Printer’s device on title page. Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes. Signed by censor on final leaf. ff. 166. Browned and stained in places. Taped repairs to title. Later boards. Folio. Vinograd, Basle 191. Basle, Konrad Walkdkirch, 1599.     Not only an encyclopedic text of terms and definitions, but also, in some cases, the ‘sole source for ancient traditions of Talmudic interpretation’, that would have otherwise been lost to posterity. See S.B. Linderman, Sepher Sarid Be’Arachin (1972), introduction.