Sepher Avodath Hatamid [selected prayers through the year]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $450

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author

(LITURGY)

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Jacob Nunes Vias & Raphael Meldola

Place

Livorno

Publication

1794

Description

According to Sephardi rite. With extensive mystical commentary by the Venetian Kabbalist Elisha Habillo

references

Vinograd, Livorno 375; and see S. Krauss, Merkwuerdige Siddurim, in: Studies...in Memory of A.s. Freidus (1929) p. 135 no. 6

summary

Habillo utilized much of the philosophy of the Sabbathian Nechemiah Chayun. And yet on p.219 and on the final page, he regrets adopting these heretical views and distances himself from them

ff. (12), 268. Title laid down, marginal wear. Modern morocco, gilt. 8vo

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