Keli Yakar [commentary to Former Prophets, with text]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $2,250

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author

LANIADO, SAMUEL

printer

Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1603

Description

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."

references

Vinograd, Venice 962; Habermann, di Gara 220

summary

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

ff.(1),3-564. Hole in title, text slightly affected. Slight tear to f. 396. Wormed, waterstained. Folio

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