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

AUCTION 68 | Thursday, April 07th, 2016 at 1:00

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

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

Text in Hebrew and Spanish face à 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. <<With:>> Four manuscript pages at end recording the Pidyon Haben ceremony in Spanish. Signed on front and back by David Lopes Pereyra, London, 1713. From the library of Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool. ff. (12), 303, pp. 54, (11), 7, (22). Few tears at margins, variously stained. Contemporary boards, worn. 12mo. Vinograd, Amsterdam 550; Fuks, Amsterdam 606; Gans, Memorbook p. 141; Roth, Jewish Art col. 474.

Amsterdam: Albertus Magnus 1687

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

“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.