Sepher shel Hoshanoth [prayers for Sukkoth]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $400

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(LITURGY).

Place

Livorno

Publication

1797

Description

Title within architectural columns. On title, scribe's name: "Joshua Chai ben Yitzchak Chaim Cansino." Unvocalized square Hebrew characters. Sepia on paper

summary

The Cansinos were a celebrated North African family that hailed originally from Seville, Spain. Several generations of the family served as advisers to the rulers of Oran, Algeria. Various members distinguished themselves as religious poets. During the 18th-century, the family fanned out to Livorno, Italy; Mahon, Minorca; Mogador (Esaouira), Morocco; Gibraltar; and London. See EJ, Vol. V, cols. 121-122

ff. (1), 58. Trace foxed and stained. Contemporary vellum. 8vo

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