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NATHAN BEN JECHIEL OF ROME. he-Arukh ha-Katsar [an anonymous abridged version of the first medieval Talmudic dictionary]. Constantinople: Samuel Ibn Nachmias, 1511. [64] leaves, printed without title, leaf 1 recto blank, a poem on leaf 1 verso, colophon on leaf 64 verso. 4to, 194 x 144 mm. (7 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.), later calf, some minor worming to spine ends, corners worn; some early marginalia. FIRST EDITION. Vinograd, Constantinople 33; Yaari, Constantinople 16; Steinschneider 6632,8 Ed. Rarissima; Zedner 609; Roest 898; Yudlov, Ginzei Yisrael 1245; Deinard, Atikot Yehudah p. 32. The Arukh of Nathan ben Jechiel (11th century c.e.) is the earliest surviving Talmudic dictionary which is the basis for all modern talmudic lexicography. It was first published at Rome about 1469-72 and because of great importance attached to the work, it achieved exceptional wide circulation and many supplements to and emendations of it were written. Our copy is the first edition of the condensed version (entiteled he-Arukh ha-Katsar) by an anonymous epitomist. However several famous bibliographers remark that this abridged version contains many new words and explanation which are not included in the longer incunable edition. (See: Benjacob 605; Chida, Ma'arekhet Sefarim and Deinard, Atikot Yehudah, compare to: Shabbetai Bass' Siftei Yeshenim).