Keli Yakar [commentary to Former Prophets, with text]

AUCTION 42 | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 1:00

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Lot 210

LANIADO, SAMUEL

Keli Yakar [commentary to Former Prophets, with text]

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch. Scattered learned marginalia. On front fly, lengthy inscription describing salvation from a fire which broke out in the house of Aaron ben Feivish Segal of Dessau "presently a melamed in the house of the famed officer R. Ezekiel of Kassel." ff.(1),3-564. Hole in title, text slightly affected. Slight tear to f. 396. Wormed, waterstained. Folio Vinograd, Venice 962; Habermann, di Gara 220

Venice: Giovanni di Gara 1603

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,250

R. Samuel Laniado (d. 1605), a celebrated sage of Aram Tzovah (Aleppo), is known as the "Ba'al ha-Kelim," after his rabbinic compositions whose titles all start with the word "Keli" (Keli Chemdah on Pentateuch; Keli Yakar on Early Prophets; and Keli Paz on Isaiah). See David Sutton, Aleppo: City of Scholars (2005), p. 260, no. 376