biobibliography
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A bibliography that also contains a short biography of the authors
Example Sentences
- "In his Shem Hagedolim, one of the first bio-bibliographies of Hebrew books and authors, he writes in the section on Rabbis that Rabbeinu Tzidkiyah wrote Shibolei Haleket. He explains that he saw Part II of this work in a manuscript and it contains many responsa of Rashi. In one of them, it says that Rashi was sick and did not have the strength to write and he called his daughter וקרא לבתו to write down that responsum."
Etymology
From bio- + bibliography.