Shulchan Tahor [anthology of Halachic rules from the Shulchan Aruch]. Postumously edited by the Author’s son, David Pardo

PARDO, JOSEPH

Uri Phoebus ben Aaron Halevi

Amsterdam

1686

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural arch incorporating printers device (cf. Ya’ari’s Printers Marks no.66). Five page dedication in Spanish to Officers of Maamad of Kaal Kados of London. Approbations by members of the Rabbinate of Amsterdam

Vinograd, Amsterdam 534; Fuks, Amsterdam 362

In his introduction, David Pardo explains that he found the text of the work among the manuscripts of his deceased father. Joseph Pardo served as Hazzan of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation, London, a post to which his son succeeded him. According to A. Hyamson: “The two Pardos were the most scholarly occupants of the office until the time of David de Sola.“ (See: The Sephardim of England (1951) pp. 78-9)