Nekudoth ha-Keseph
AUCTION 29 |
Monday, June 20th,
2005 at 1:00
Superior Hebrew Printed Books: Singular Selections from Two Distingushed Private Collections with American-Judaica.
Lot 37
LANIADO, ABRAHAM BEN ISAAC
Nekudoth ha-Keseph
Venice: Giovanni Caleoni for the House of Bragadini 1619
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
A commentary to the Song of Songs, with Biblical text, Aramaic Targum and translation into Judeo-Spanish. This copy with f.11, missing from most copies. Although this folio is numbered as f. 11 in reality it is f. 17 with a slightly different typographical layout, no doubt why it was removed from most copies.
The title derives from the verse in Song of Songs 1:11: “We will make you circlets of gold with studs of silver.”
The author, Abraham Laniado, a native of Aleppo, Syria, was married to the daughter of his uncle, Samuel Laniado, author of the Keli Yakar, a commentary on the Prophets. Abraham Laniado traveled to Italy to oversee the publication of his father in-law’s works as well as his own collection of sermons, Magen Avraham (Venice 1603). See Giora Pozielov, Chachmeihem shel Yehudei Sepharad ve-ha-Mizrach (2004), p. 147-8