Mizmor Lethodah [commentary to selected Psalms].

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ARIPOL, SHMUEL.

Mizmor Lethodah [commentary to selected Psalms].

Second edition. Title within historiated woodcut border, incorporating printer’s mark (Ya’ari, Printers Marks, no. 38). ff. 97, (62). Foxed and trace wormed. Modern morocco. 4to. Vinograd, Prague 195.

Prague: Moses ben Bezalel Katz 1610

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

Although he was one of the great preachers of the 16th century, little is known of R. Shmuel Aripul (1540? - after 1586). It appears that he was a resident of Salonika for at least a portion of his life and later settled in Safed. See EJ, Vol. III, col. 437.