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Title Information

Title (English)

Keli Yekar with ms. commentary Keli Yadot

Title (Hebrew)

כלי יקר ע'פ כ'י כלי ידת

Author

[First Ed. - Ms. - Unpublished] R. Samuel Lania

City

Venice

Publisher

Giovani Di Gara

Publication Date

1603

Collection Information

Independent Item

This listing is an independent item not part of any collection

Description Information

Physical
Description

First edition. [2], 3-564 ff., 285:197 mm., wide margins, light age and damp staining, few paper repairs, old hand in margins. A very good copy bound in modern half leather and cloth boards, corners tipped in. Friedberg notes that only 190 copies were printed, making this quite scarce. Illustrated ms. title page besides the regular title page which is unattached to the volume, signed by the commentator. Some margins lacking affecting text of the commentary at the beginning of Joshua. Otherwise, the pages are crisp with one or two exceptions.

Paragraph 1

Commentary to former prophets by R. Samuel b. Abraham Laniado (d. 1605), Syrian rabbi, biblical commentator, and preacher, known from the title of most of his works as Ba'al ha-Kelim. R. Laniado was a grandson of R. Samuel Laniado who settled in Adrianople after the expulsion from Spain. He was born in Aleppo, where he became head of the community (c. 1601) after the death of R. Samuel b. Joseph ha-Kohen. He assembled homiletical and exegetical comments on the Bible, and original comments of his own. The following of his books have been published: Keli Hemdah (Venice, 1595), on the Pentateuch; Keli Paz (ibid., 1657), on Isaiah; Teru'at Melekh (Jerusalem, 1931), on Psalms. Many of his works have remained in manuscript, including his commentaries on the latter prophets, with the exception of Hosea and Joel (Gaster, manuscripts, London 62, 1–3); Keli Golah, on Lamentations; and Mevakkesh ha-Shem, a commentary on the Pentateuch which he mentions in Keli Hemdah. He also wrote a commentary entitled Sekhel Tov on the Midrash Shoher Tov which was in the possession of R. Hayyim Joseph David Azulai.

Detailed
Description

Even more noteworthy is an immense ms. commentary to the Kli Yakar on the margins of Joshua, Judges, Samuel I and part of Samuel II by R. Shabbatai Elhanan b. Elisha Del Vecchio (min Hazekeinim). The commentary called "Yadot ha-kli" was never published. R. Shabbatai Elhanan b. Elisha Del Vecchio (min Hazekeinim; 1707-?), rabbi of Casale Monferrato and other Italian cities, posek, and preacher. In his youth Del Vecchio studied under his grandfather, R. Solomon David Del Vecchio, who ordained him as rabbi. In 1727 he was ordained rabbi also by the rabbis of Ferrara who included R. Isaac Hezekiah Lampronti, author of the Pahad Yitzhok wherein many of his responsa are recorded. He was a teacher in several Italian communities: Leghorn, Ancona, and Lugo from 1730 to 1739, when he was appointed rabbi of the town of Casale. Many noted scholars were his pupils. R. Del Vecchio used to sign his responsa as "Malkat Sheva" ("Queen of Sheba"; from Shabbetai Ben Elisha). He was also on friendly terms with HIDA who visited him in Casale in 1755. His approbation appears on the Shoshanim leDavid of R. David Pardo, son-in-law of the HIDA, a responsa appears in Shemesh Zedakah (Venice 1743) of R. Samson Morpurgo.

His writings are still in manuscript: Yeled Zekunim, a collection of letters sent to him by rabbis and emissaries with his replies, some of which were published by J. Nacht (see bibl.). His halakhic works are Ir Miklat on the precepts; Mishpat ha-Morim; Da'at Zekenim; Ta'am Zekenim; and Penei Zekenim. Responsa and additional letters are to be found in the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York (nos. 55–915–1044).

Paragraph 2

פירוש נביאים ראשונים [עם הפנים] להחכם... ר' שמואל (בן... ר' אברהם) לאנייאדו נר"ו... יעלה... על ספר... המאמרים אשר בילקוט [שמעוני] והמפרשים... רש"י והראב"ע והרד"ק והרלב"ג ומהרי"ע [יצחק עראמה] ומהר"י [ר' יצחק אברבנאל] ז"ל, בתוספת מרובה... שהוסיף הרב המחבר... הוגה... על יד... ר' אברהם (בן... ר' יצחק [אחי המחבר]... מן ארם צובה) לאנייאדו נר"ו [שהוסיף "הקדמת המגיה" מעבר לשער ו"מפתחות" לפירוש בסוף כל ספר ודברי-סיום בסוף הספר].

בשער: ותהי ראשית מלאכתו בחדש אלול ה'שס"ג פ[רשת] הוא חייך וארך ימיך [נצבים-וילך, יז-כב אלול]. בספרי יהושע, שופטים ושמואל נוספו בהרבה מקומות בגליון ביאורי מלים. בשני הספרים הראשונים רוב הביאורים בעברית, ובספר שמואל רובם בלעז ספרדי-יהודי.

Reference
Description

CD-EPI 0182275; Friedberg 269, Cowley, p. 611, Zedner, p. 120; Weiner 52348; EJ; Rosanes, Togarmah, 3 (1938), pp. 233–4

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