ROMAN, JACOB BEN ISAAC

ROMAN, JACOB BEN ISAAC
ROMAN, JACOB BEN ISAAC (c. 1570–1650), bibliographer and writer; born in Constantinople of Spanish descent. While in Basle, Roman met johannes buxtorf the Younger, who utilized the former's bibliographical knowledge for the appendix to his father's Bibliotheca Rabbinica, which he had edited. For a short while the two maintained correspondence, and the two extant letters by Roman were published in the Revue des Etudes Juives (8 (1844), 87–94). His plan to reestablish a Hebrew press in Constantinople did not reach fruition. Roman compiled an Arabic-Turkish and an Arabic-Hebrew dictionary and composed a Hebrew prosody, "Mozenei Mishkal." He also translated some of Jonah ibn Janah's works from Arabic into Hebrew: none, however, was published. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Zunz, Gesch, 233–4; Steinschneider, Cat. Bod, 1254 no. 5008; Steinschneider, Uebersetzungen, 377; idem, in: ZDMG, 9 (1855), 840. (Victor A. Mirelman)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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