Auction 31 · Lot 144
Horden de Noche de 14 de Nissan con todas las circunstansias que por obligacion deve todo Israel observar
- Estimate
- $7,000–$10,000
- Hammer price
- $22,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(HAGADAH)
printer
Ishac Jeuda Leao Templo
Place
Amsterdam
Publication
1728
Description
Spanish text. Contemporary finely gilt-tooled calf, upper cover with a coat of arms composed of a crown, topping a medallion with three bees, surrounded by floral ornaments
references
Silva Rosa (1933), n. 73 (present location unknown). Not in Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, JNUL, JTSA, or BL
summary
Extremely rare Spanish edition of the Hagadah printed in Amsterdam.
Contrary to the large number of liturgical works printed in Spanish by the Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam (more than one hundred different editions), only two separate Spanish editions of the Hagadah are known, including the present edition. Both are extremely rare. The first was printed by David Abenatar Melo in 1622 of which no copy was known until Den Boer and Salomon located a single surviving copy. See “Another Lost Book Found: the Haggadah by David Abenatar Melo” in: Studia Rosenthaliana 29 (1995) pp. 119-134.
Only one other copy is extant of the present 1728 Hagadah, held at the Hebrew Union College at Cincinnati, purchased from A. Rosenthal, Oxford, (Catalogue XI: Anglo-Judaica,1948, no. 1416)
pp. 56. Trace worn along margins. 16mo
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