Rinath Dodim [homiletic commentary to the Song of Songs]

LOANZ, ELIJAH

Konrad Waldkirch

Basle

1600

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

Vinograd, Basle 203; Prijs166; not in Adams

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