Avak Sopherim [Biblical homilies and sermons]

CUENQUE, ABRAHAM.

Nathaniel Foa

Amsterdam

1704

FIRST EDITION. Three parts in one. Title within architectural arch. THE TZVI HIRSCH FERBER COPY, inscribed to him on title and signed by him a number of times. Older signature of Shemoto Gaguine, the Sephardic scholar, in English

Vinograd, Amsterdam 769

A native of Hebron in the second half of the seventeenth-century, the author became one of the most earnest apostles of Shabthai Tzvi. Even the apostasy of the pretended Messiah failed to shake Cuenque’s belief. The introduction of the present work presents an account of his travels throughout Europe ostensibly to raise funds for the destitute of the Holy Land, but in actuality in order to win adherents to the Sabbathian Movement