(Spanish). Orden de lo que se ha de dezir cada dia y noche... [daily and nocturnal prayers, etc.]

AUCTION 31 | Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew and Other Printed Books

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Lot 222
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(Spanish). Orden de lo que se ha de dezir cada dia y noche... [daily and nocturnal prayers, etc.]

pp. [1-3]-216. Some browning. Contemporary Dutch blind stamped calf with geometrical ornamentation on wooden boards, one clasp missing.12mo

Amsterdam: Joseph Athias 1666

Est: $8,000 - $10,000
PRICE REALIZED $17,000
Unrecorded work. Not in Kayserling, Biblioteca espanola-portugueza-judaica (1890), not in Den Boer, Spanish and Portuguese Printing in the Northern Netherlands (2003). Not listed in Scholem’s comprehensive bibliography (Sabbatai Sevi. The Mystical Messiah. 1973) No copies known worldwide (not in Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, Ets Haim, Jewish National and University Library, JTSA, Hebrew Union College (Klau Library), British Library, World Cat, NCC, etc.) This is one of a series of Tikunim that were published in Spanish translation in Amsterdam in the year 1666 in connection with the false Messiah, Sabbetai Zevi. On the title page, the words “Segun vino de Ierusalaim” relates to specific Sabbetian liturgical rites. At the end, the colophon mentions the work had been “revised and corrected from the errors of the first edition, and of the many errors that had been made in the one [edition] printed outside of my house.” Athias here referred to his own previous edition with the same title, of which presently one unique copy is held at the British Library, as well as to the other Spanish edition, printed previously by David de Castro Tartas, also printed at Amsterdam in 1666, of which a unique copy is held at the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana at the Universiteitsbibliotheek of Amsterdam. All the prayer books printed in the year of Sabbetai Zevi are extremely scarce. Of these, Spanish books, printed in fewer copies than the Hebrew glory ones, are especially rare. Additional research matter accompanies this lot.