Nekudoth ha-Keseph

LANIADO, ABRAHAM BEN ISAAC

Giovanni Caleoni for the House of Bragadini

Venice

1619

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch

Vinograd, Venice 1115; Yaari, Ladino 14, Roest, Anhang no. 1367

A commentary to the Song of Songs, with Biblical text, Aramaic Targum and translation into Judeo-Spanish. This copy with f.11, missing from most copies. Although this folio is numbered as f. 11 in reality it is f. 17 with a slightly different typographical layout, no doubt why it was removed from most copies. The title derives from the verse in Song of Songs 1:11: “We will make you circlets of gold with studs of silver.” The author, Abraham Laniado, a native of Aleppo, Syria, was married to the daughter of his uncle, Samuel Laniado, author of the Keli Yakar, a commentary on the Prophets. Abraham Laniado traveled to Italy to oversee the publication of his father in-law’s works as well as his own collection of sermons, Magen Avraham (Venice 1603). See Giora Pozielov, Chachmeihem shel Yehudei Sepharad ve-ha-Mizrach (2004), p. 147-8