Rinath Dodim [homiletic commentary to the Song of Songs]

AUCTION 36 | Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 1:00

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LOANZ, ELIJAH

Rinath Dodim [homiletic commentary to the Song of Songs]

FIRST EDITION. Title within foliated border. Text of Song of Songs in square Hebrew characters provided with nikud (vowel points). Commentary surrounding in Rashi script. On title, stamps of former owners: “Abraham Aaron ben R. Baruch”; “Isaac ben R. D.M., Rabbi of Vileika” (family name “Perlov” in Cyrilic letters). On verso of title, “Kanithi zeh ha-sepher be-K”K Frankfurt shenath 5361, ne’um Pinchas nikra Zeligman ben Gershon” [I bought this book in Frankfurt in the year 1601, Pinchas called “Zeligman” son of Gershon].On f.18v. two illustrations of faces, front and profile, within commentary ff. (1), 30. Due to close cropping, some headers missing. Browned and waterstained. Recent marbled endpapers. Later boards. 8vo Vinograd, Basle 203; Prijs166; not in Adams

Basle: Konrad Waldkirch 1600

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $450

R. Elijah Loanz (1565-1636), a disciple of the MaHaRa”L of Prague, was an outstanding German kabbalist. A grandson of the statesman R. Joselman of Rosheim, he was popularly known as R. Elijah Ba’al Shem, in view of his thaumaturgic powers