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IBN MELECH, SOLOMON. - Michlol Yofi [linguistic commentary to the Bible].. FIRST EDITION . Title within ornamental woodcut border. Double columns. Key words provided with nikud (vowel points). Signatures including Yehudah Aryeh Halevi of Bamberg; learned marginalia in a few hands. (ff. 192). Discolored, stained in places. Modern morocco, housed in slip-case. Folio. Vinograd, Const. 199; Yaari, Const. 148. Moses ben Eliezer Parnas HaRofe, Constantinople: 1548-49. Michlol Yofi incorporates much of David Kimchi’s Sepher HaShorashim, to the extent of co-opting some of Kimchi’s translations to French (or rather Provencal).