JACOB BEN OBADIAH SFORNO:
Italian scholar; lived at Venice in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was the author of a work entitled "Iggeret ha-Ṭe'amim," on the Hebrew accents (Venice, 1600). Steinschneider, however, believesthe work to be identical with the "Iggeret ha-Ṭe'amim" of Aaron Abraham ben Baruch.
Bibliography:
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. cols. 716, 1255;
- Mortara, Indice, p. 61;
- Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 11.
