Bidspirit auction | LANIADO, SHMUEL. Kli Chemdah [homilies

LANIADO, SHMUEL. Kli Chemdah [homilies on the Torah portions.] FIRST EDITION. Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes. Printer’s device. ff. 270, (7). Dampstained in places, opening three leaves laid to size, following few leaves rehinged, final two leaves with marginal repairs. Modern boards. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 821. Venice, Giovanni di Gara, 1596. Known as the ‘Ba’al HaKelim’ (all of his works begin with the word ‘keli, ’) R. Shmuel Laniado (d. 1605) was one of the most famed sages of Aram-Tzova (Aleppo). See D. Sutton, Aleppo: City of Scholars (2005) p. 260, no. 376.