Quotes:Jacob ben Hayyim ben Isaac Ibn Adonijah

Zirkoff, Boris

Jacob ben Hayyim ben Isaac Ibn Adonijah. Jewish Masorete and printer, b. at Tunis, about 1470; d. before 1538. Left native country because of persecution that broke out there at the beginning of 16th cent. Resided at Rome and Florence, later settling at Venice, where he was engaged as corrector of the Hebrew press of Daniel Bomberg. Late in life embraced Christianity. Chiefly known in connection with his edition of the Rabbinical Bible (1524-25), which he supplied with Masoretic notes and introduction treating of the Masorah. This introd, was translated into Latin by Claude Capellus (De Mari Rabbinico Infido, II, ch. 4, Paris, 1667), and into English by Ginsburg (Longham, 1865). Jacob also wrote dissertations on the Targum, and revised ed. princeps of the Jerusalem Talmud (1523) and of Maimonides’ Tad. Vide Fürst, Bibi. Jud., iii, 451; Ginsburg, Massoret ha-Massoret, pp. 33-34.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, p. 378