Bidspirit auction | ARIPUL, SHMUEL. Mizmor LeThodah [commentary

ARIPUL, SHMUEL. Mizmor LeThodah [commentary to selected Tehillim, with vocalized text]. FIRST EDITION. Title within wreathed columns. Opening letters within decorative woodcut vignettes. Marginalia in Judeo-Espanol. ff. 184. Trimmed and lightly stained, trace wormed. Leaves 57-60 duplicated, small portion of f. 85 torn away. Modern calf. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 614. Venice, Giovanni di Gara, 1576. Salonika born R. Shmuel Aripol (1540-86) composed this work after recovering from illness in 1571. A resident of Tzfat for many years, he explains the esoteric verses of selected Tehilim using a wide range of interpretive methods, ranging from Peshat to Kabbalah.