Bidspirit auction | KOL BO [Halachic compendium]. (Attributed

KOL BO [Halachic compendium]. (Attributed to Aaron HaKohen of Lunel). Title set within architectural arch featuring printer’s device (see Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 34). Censor’s comments on lower margin of title. ff. 4, 158. Previous owners' marks, some staining, some worming, expert paper repairs. Later full vellum. Sm. folio. Vinograd, Venice 545. Venice, Giorgio di Cavalli, 1567. The Kol Bo was written at the end of the 13th- or beginning of the 14th-century. Scholars debate the identity of the author and the relation of the book to R. Aaron HaKohen of Lunel's Orchoth Chaim, whose contents overlap the material in the Kol Bo. There are those who maintain that the Kol Bo is by the same author, but an earlier draft of the Orchoth Chaim. Kol Bo draws on the works of many Halachic authorities, be they R. Eliezer b. Nathan, R. Peretz of Corbeil, or R. Baruch b. Isaac, author of Sepher HaTerumah.