Klei Chemdah [homilies on the Torah portions].

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $3,200

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

LANIADO, SHMUEL.

printer

Gershom ben Bezalel Katz

Place

Prague

Publication

1610

Description

Second edition. Title within architectural arch. Impressive contemporary binding.

references

Vinograd, Prague 191.

summary

R. Shmuel Laniado (d. 1605) is known as the ‘Ba’al HaKeilim’ as each of his works commence with the word, ‘Kli.’ A rabbi in Aleppo (Aram-Tzova), Laniado wrote many commentaries to Biblical texts, some of which remain in manuscript to this day.

ff. 268, (8). Ex-library, browned, title laid to size, following few leaves with marginal repairs. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum over heavy wooden boards, leather ties, rubbed, expertly repaired, new endpapers. Folio.

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