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(also called SALMAN NAKDON, i.e. the Punctuator, and by contraction IEHABI), a distinguished Masorite and editor of the Hebrew Scriptures, flourished in Prague in the latter half of the 13th century. He edited a very correct text of the Pentateuch (published for the first time by Heidenheim in his edition of the Pentateuch called òéðéí îàéø [Rödelheim, 1818-21]) and the book of Esther (also published by Heidenheim in his ñãø éîé äôåøéí [Rödelheim, 1825]), with the vowels and accents, for the preparation of which he consulted six old Spanish codices, which he denominates úà , à÷ , àç , àîñ , àæ , àè , and which Heidenheim explains to mean any àçã , úé÷åï , ÷ãîåï , äùåá , îñåøéåú , ú÷ï , èåá , the prefix à denoting Spain (comp. òéï ä÷åøà on Num_34:28). The results of his critical labors he further embodied in a work entitled òéï ÷éøà (The Eye of the Reader), and makes frequent quotations from the writings of many distinguished Jewish commentators of his and the preceding age. An appendix to the work contains a grammatical treatise entitled ëììé äð÷åã ãøëé äð÷åã (The Laws of the Vowel Points). Comp. Zunz, Zur Geschichte und Literatur (Berl. 1845), p. 115; Fürst, Bibliotheca Judaica, 2, 53; Geiger, Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift f. Jüdische Theologie, 5, 418- 420; Steinschneider, Catalogus Libr. Heb. in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, col. 1381.