MENAHEM B. MOSES TAMAR:
Poet and commentator; probably a pupil of Mordecai Comtino of Constantinople; flourished in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries at Adrianople or Philippopolis. He wrote commentaries to the books of Proverbs, Ruth, and Esther, a supercommentary to Abraham ibn Ezra's commentary to the Pentateuch, and a Hebrew grammar entitled "Rashe Besamim." He furnished a noteworthy contribution to Hebrew poetry in his "Azharot" (comp.
- Steinschneider, Cat. Leyden, pp. 120 et seq. (comp. Zunz in Zeit. für. Hebr. Bibl. ix. 133) and pp. 139 et seq.;
- idem, Hebr. Uebers. p. 593;
- Zunz, Literaturgesch. p. 526;
- Landshuth, 'Ammude ha-'Abodah, pp. 194 et seq.;
- Nepi-Ghirondi, Toledot Gedole Yisrael, p. 236;
- Luzzatto, Naḥlat, pp. 21, 51.