(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

AUCTION 30 | Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 51

(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

Seder ha-Hoda’ah - Order of Service to be observed in the K”K Sha’ar ha-Shamayim Synagogue of Spanish & Portuguese Jews, Bevis Marks, on the Day Appointed for a General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for His Divine Protection to his People Israel, So Signally Manifested in the Success which Attended Sir Moses Montefiore, F.R.S. in his Mission to the East pp.(3); ff.11. Foxed. Contemporary calf, gilt extra. 4to

London: By Direction of the Gentlemen of the Mahamad 1841

Est: $700 - $900

Thanksgiving Service to comemorate the success of the Delegation led by Sir Moses Montefiore in relation to the Damascus Blood Libel. Sir Moses received a firman from the Sultan, stipulating such abhorrent accusations were utterly fallacious. Of interest, herein is the Portuguese version of the de jure Prayer for the Queen and Royal Family reading: "A Sua Majestade a Rainha VICTORIA a Dowager Rainha ADELAIDE o Principe ALBERTO e toda a Real Familha." D.M. Isaacs served as minister of Liverpool. See C. Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica (1937), pp. 193, 328. Hananel de Castro was, along with Sir Moses Montefiore, a prominent member of the Mahamad, the governing body of the Portuguese community of London. See A.M. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951), pp. 259, 287, 293, 295