Colophon: Elye Bokher’s Petaḥ devaray

Cornelio Adelkind

1546

And thus was finished the book Petah Debarai
In the name of the living God my redeemer and rock
In the year of the creation 306
On the 29th day of Tishri
Edited by the Hebrew grammarian
Elijah the Levita, the lonely man,
Printed in the house of the master, the Christian
In Venice the Capital whose standard is a lion,
Who is now printing Sifra and Sifre
And may my hand not cease from putting forth fruit
Israel was my name and as Cornelio I will be remembered.

 

Translated by David Werner Amram.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.

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