(LITURGY, SPANISH). Orden de Ros Asanah y Kuyper (Order for New Year and Day of Atonement). Includes celebrated poem by Solomon ibn Gabirol, Keter Malchut

(SEPHARDICA).

Efraim Bueno y Jona Abravanel en casa de Joris Trigg

Amsterdam

1652

Publisher’s printed overslip on title.On opening blank, Spanish inscription: “Este livro de Binyamin de…Benveniste, Hamburgo” (This book belongs to Benjamin de Benveniste, Hamburg). On rear blank “Lionel Lony, given August 10, 1870.”

Kayserling, p. 61

An early liturgical publication entirely in Spanish, for Marrano Jews whose history caused a loss of familiarity with the Hebrew language. The first owner’s inscription indicates that the book was once owned by a Sephardic Jew of Hamburg, Germany. Hamburg once boasted a very influential Spanish-Portuguese community.