Ascamot, or Laws and Regulations of the Jewish Congregation Entitled Shaar Ashamaim in London [i.e., the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation]
AUCTION 39 |
Thursday, April 03rd,
2008 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art
Lot 29
(ANGLO-JUDAICA)
Ascamot, or Laws and Regulations of the Jewish Congregation Entitled Shaar Ashamaim in London [i.e., the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation]
London: J. Wertheimer 1831
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Laws governing the internal administration of London’s celebrated Bevis Marks Synagogue. The first edition of the Ascamot was published in 1785, in Portuguese. The present edition is the third following an earlier edition of 1819. Two subsequent editions were issued in 1850 and 1872. See A.M. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951), pp. 28-32 and 188-190