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(BIBLE,   Psalms) . Sepher Tehilim. With commentaries by R. David Kimchi (RaDa’K) and R. Yoseph Chayun (ReYa’CH). FIRST EDITION of Chayun’s commentary. Letter “Aleph” on f. 180r. (beginning Psalm 119) historiated. Text mispaginated but complete - only lacking title. Opening few leaves frayed with some loss, dampstained. Later calf-backed boards, broken. Folio. Vinograd, Salonika 30; Mehlman 69 (according to Yudlov, the Mehlman copy also lacks ff. 1-2). Salonika, Don Judah Gedaliah, 1522. R. Joseph ben Abraham Hayun (d. 1497) was the last Chief Rabbi of Lisbon before the Expulsion from Portugal in 1497. From Lisbon, Chayun went to Contantinople, dying shortly thereafter. The commentary on Psalms is Chayun’s first published work and was followed by a commentary on Ethics of the Fathers: Milei De’Avoth (Constantinople, 1578). Abrabanel consulted with Chayon on halachic matters and his most famous disciple was R. Yoseph Ya’abetz (’HeChasid Ya’abetz.’). The printer, Judah Gedaliah was foreman at Eliezer Toledano’s press in Lisbon. Following the expulsion of the Jews from Portugal he settled in Salonika and became the town’s proto-typographer in 1515. See Yaari, HaDefus Ha’Ivri BeKushta (1967) p. 128, no. 195; and EJ, Vol. VII, col. 1514.