Sermoës que Pregaraõ os Doctors Ingenios do K.K. de Talmud Torah, desta Cidade de Amsterdam.

Auction 92 | Thursday, February 18th, 2021 at 1:00pm

Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts

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Lot 231

(SEPHARDICA).

Sermoës que Pregaraõ os Doctors Ingenios do K.K. de Talmud Torah, desta Cidade de Amsterdam.

<<Complete with Romeyn de Hooghe’s exquisite engravings>> of architecture and layout, exterior and interior of the synagogue (8 illustrations on 4 leaves). Text in Portuguese interspersed with Hebrew. pp. (16), 155. Heavily worn and stained, upper corner of opening several leaves with loss (not affecting text), upper corners of engravings with repair, lower margins laid down on verso, final text leaf laid down with some loss. Contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards, worn and distressed. Sm. 4to. Kayserling, p. 100; Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, Treasures of Jewish Booklore (1994) pp. 44-45 (no. 19); J. Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe as Book Illustrator (1970) p. 103 (no. 43).

Amsterdam: David de Castro Tartaz 1675

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,600

<<A seminal landmark in the Sephardic treasury.>> The Sermoës comprise a collection of the sermons delivered at the dedication service of the newly built Spanish-Portuguese synagogue of Amsterdam in 1675. Sermons were preached by Hahams Isaac Aboab, Selomoh de Oliveira, Isaac Saruco, Isaac Nieto, Elijah Lopes, Isaac Vellozino, and Dr. Isaac Orobio de Castro. The festivities are described thusly: “The opening ceremony was held on the eve of Shabbat Nachamu (the Sabbath following the Fast of the Ninth of Av). The celebrations enlivened by a choir and an orchestra, continued for eight days, as long as the reconsecration of the Temple in the days of the Maccabees.” See M.H. Ganz, Memorbook (1977) p. 101. The synagogue, still standing today, has remained the revered shrine of the Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Diaspora.