Berith Yitzchak [liturgy for circumcision, with readings for night vigil].

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

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Berith Yitzchak [liturgy for circumcision, with readings for night vigil].

Text in Hebrew and Portuguese. Illustration of circumcision on title-page. Tailpiece consisting of ritual laver, an allusion to the Levitic descent of the editor and patron, Selomah Levi Maduro. <<The Rev. J.J. Lyons copy, handsome binding with his name gilt-tooled in Hebrew.>> From the library of Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool. ff. (2), 17, (1). Foxed and stained in places. Morocco, a.e.g., slip-case. 12mo. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1946.

Amsterdam: I. Mondovi for G.J. Jansson 1768

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $5,000

Contains specific ceremonies for the circumcision of slaves, mamzerim (bastards), Marranos and converts. Commences with a two-page dedication to the Sephardic Mohelim, final three pages listing the qualified Mohelim located throughout the Spanish & Portuguese Diaspora: Amsterdam, The Hague, London, Hamburg, Bayonne, Curaçao, and Surinam. Regarding Jaques Judah Lyons (1813-77) and his “deep impression” on Cong. Shearith Israel, see David and Tamar de Sola Pool, An Old Faith In The New World, Portrait of Shearith Israel 1654-1954 pp. 178-82.