SPANISH). Seder Selichoth… U’Tephiloth Rosh Hashanah VeKippur / Orden de Selihoth y Oraciones de Roshasanah y Kipur [Penitential Prayers, and Prayers for the New Year and Day of Atonement].

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(LITURGY.

printer

Giovanni Caleoni

Place

Venice

Publication

1623

Description

Title in Hebrew and Spanish. Title within typographic border. Entirely in Spanish but for the Hebrew notes relating to the blowing of the Shophar.

references

Unrecorded.

summary

An early Spanish liturgy, seemingly unrecorded. (Not in Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, Ets Haim, JNUL, JTSA, Hebrew Union College (Klau Library), British Library, World Cat, NCC, etc). This remarkably rare Venetian edition was produced for distribution throughout the Spanish-Portuguese Diaspora. See C. Roth, The Role of Spanish in the Marrano Diaspora in: Hispanic Studies in Honour of I. González Llubera (1959).

ff. 272 (i. e., 282). Few leaves misbound, lacks ff. 36-7. Wormed affecting text, ff. 83, 99, 180 and 186 partially torn, lightly browned and stained. Contemporary diced morocco, gilt extra, marbled endpapers, hinges split. On front board, in gilt lettering "R. S. " 12mo.

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