(LITURGY, SPANISH). Orden de Ros Asanah y Kuyper (Order for New Year and Day of Atonement). Includes celebrated poem by Solomon ibn Gabirol, Keter Malchut

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Lot 220

(SEPHARDICA).

(LITURGY, SPANISH). Orden de Ros Asanah y Kuyper (Order for New Year and Day of Atonement). Includes celebrated poem by Solomon ibn Gabirol, Keter Malchut

Publisher’s printed overslip on title.On opening blank, Spanish inscription: “Este livro de Binyamin de…Benveniste, Hamburgo” (This book belongs to Benjamin de Benveniste, Hamburg). On rear blank “Lionel Lony, given August 10, 1870.” ff.478. Dampstained throughout. Badly rubbed tooled calf with clasps. 8vo Kayserling, p. 61

Amsterdam: Efraim Bueno y Jona Abravanel en casa de Joris Trigg 1652

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $900

An early liturgical publication entirely in Spanish, for Marrano Jews whose history caused a loss of familiarity with the Hebrew language. The first owner’s inscription indicates that the book was once owned by a Sephardic Jew of Hamburg, Germany. Hamburg once boasted a very influential Spanish-Portuguese community.