Seder Chamisha Ta'aniyoth [penitential prayers for the five fasts]. According to the custom of the Holy Community of Sephardim, Amsterdam. Prepared by SOLOMON BEN JACOB JUDAH LEON TEMPLO

Estimate: $300–$400
Hammer price: $150

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author

(LITURGY).

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Isaac ben Solomon Rope Judah Leon Templo

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1726

Description

Engraved frontispiece depicting the Temple by Jacob Judah Leon Templo. WIDE MARGINED COPY

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1276; no copy in the JNUL

summary

The name "Templo," Temple in Spanish, was added to the engraver's family name on account of the copper engravings of Solomon's temple that he prepared for his Spanish work on the Temple, Retrato del Templo de Selomoh (Middleburgh, 1642). (For the first Hebrew edition of this work, see Lot ***). An example of his engraving adornes the frontispiece of this volume, prepared by his son Solomon and shows two views of the Temple one in its’glory and the other, annihilated

ff. (5),138. Foxed. Contemorary blind-tooled vellum, gilt-titled spine-lable. Lg. 8vo

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