PSALMS WITH THE COMMENTARIES OF RABBIS DAVID KIMHI AND JOSEPH HAYYUN, SALONIKA: DON JUDAH GEDALIAH, 1522

A rare Salonika imprint, including the first published work by Hayyun.

The present lot is a copy of the book of Psalms accompanied by the commentaries of Rabbis David Kimhi and Joseph Hayyun (d. 1497). The former work had previously appeared in 1477 (Bologna?), 1487 (Naples; see lot 1), and 1518 (Venice), but the latter was printed here for the first time. Hayyun was a prominent halakhic authority and the last chief rabbi of the Jewish community of Lisbon prior to the forced conversion/expulsion of Portuguese Jewry. His commentary on Pirkei avot, entitled Millei de-avot, was published in Constantinople (1578) and Venice (1600), and some of his notes on the haftarot were issued as part of Sefer likkutei man in Amsterdam (1764). This edition of Psalms was printed together with the book of Proverbs glossed with the Kav ve-naki commentary of Rabbi David ben Solomon Ibn Yahya (see lot 215).