Kli Chemdah [homilies on the Torah portions]

AUCTION 46 | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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Lot 205

LANIADO, SAMUEL

Kli Chemdah [homilies on the Torah portions]

FIRST EDITION. Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes. Printer’s device. Stamps of former owners: Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Israel Rivkind (see Goldman 723) and Rabbi Michael Berson, Chelsea, Mass. ff. 270, (7). Title remargined, few stains. Recent elegant blind-tooled mahogany calf with gold florets. Folio Vinograd, Vence 821; Habermann, di Gara 161

Venice: Giovanni de Gara 1596

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $850

Known as the "Ba'al ha-Kelim" (all of his works begin with the word "keli"), R. Samuel Laniado (d. 1605) was one of the most prolific scholars of Aleppo. R. Samuel Laniado (d. 1605), one of the famous sages of Aram Tzova (Aleppo), is known as the "Ba'al ha-Kelim," because his titles 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.