Grammarian and corrector for the press at Mantua; lived in the second half of the sixteenth century. He was connected with the printing establishments of Meïr Sofer ben Ephraim of Padua and Jacob ben Naphtali ha-Kohen of Gazolo, and was the author of "Liwyat Ḥen," on Hebrew grammar and prosody, in eleven chapters (Mantua, 1557). On page 16 he gives an explanation of the riddle of Abraham ibn Ezra on the four letters
Bibliography:
- Zunz, Z. G. p. 253;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. cols. 541, 1055;
- idem, Bibliographisches Handbuch, p. 68;
- Mortara, Indice, p. 7;
- Renan-Neubauer, Les Rabbins Français, p. 638.
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