Spanish). Godines, Benjamin Senior (Ed.) Me’ah Berachoth / Orden de Bendiciones.

AUCTION 64 | Thursday, March 19th, 2015 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects, Maps and Graphic Art

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Spanish). Godines, Benjamin Senior (Ed.) Me’ah Berachoth / Orden de Bendiciones.

Title in Hebrew and Spanish. Text in Hebrew and Spanish face `a face. Editor’s introduction in Portuguese. Exceptional engraved frontispiece by the Jewish artist Benjamin Godines depicting Man’s Five Senses by way of the performance of five ceremonial acts. A clean, wide-margined copy. ff. (12), 303, pp. 54, (15), 7, (22). Tape marks on endpapers. Later gilt-ruled straight-grain green morocco, all edges gilt. Thick 12mo. Vinograd, Amsterdam 550; Fuks, Amsterdam 606; Kayserling, p. 62; Gans, Memorbook p. 141; Roth, Jewish Art, col. 474.

Amsterdam: Albertus Magnus 1687

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,250

“One Hundred Blessings”: A most striking volume of collected prayers and instructions issued for Marrano refugees. Included in the Me’ah Berachoth are: A Passover Hagadah; an index of blessings for the entire year including relevant laws and commentary according to Sephardic rite; a perpetual liturgical calendar; a recipe for Charoseth; instructions for constructing a Mikveh; prayers for the sick, last rites, and prayers for martyrs burned at the stake by the Inquisition. Of uncommon interest are the ceremonies celebrating the birth of a daughter, “Zeved HaBath” (Fadas de la Hija) and the circumcision ceremony of proselytes and servants.