[Avodah] What is Mashal HaQadmoni?

[Jonathan Baker]

From: Arie Folger <afolger at aishdas.org>
 
> On Jan 11, 2013 3:18 AM, "David Riceman" <driceman at optimum.net> wrote:
> >> Rashi cites Meshal haQadmoni, but I never thought too much about what
> >> that source is. Today, I stimbled across the following page
 
> > Aren't they both citing Shmuel 1 24:13 (see Rashi ad. loc.)?
 
> Yes, but I hadn't realized that MhQ was a book.

Ah. An artist friend issued a fancy edition (he designed the type,
his wife, a well-known historian, edited the text, the illustrations
came from a 16th-century edition) many years ago, so I knew about
the book.

http://www.5plus5gallery.com/book.php?book_id=41
 
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