Livro d'Omer Feito por Rebi Salamaõ Attias a Moses Buzaglo [prayer and blessing for the Counting of the Omer]

(AZORES)

Ponta Delgada, Saõ Miguel (Azores)

1839

Hebrew manuscript written in square characters with vowel-points

This Omer Calendar, created by R. Solomon Attias for Moses Buzaglo, is a relic of the tiny Jewish community of the Azores Islands, a Portuguese possession in the North Atlantic, approximately 950 miles in distance from Lisbon. Though Marranos settled the islands in the 16th- and 17th-centuries, they left no written record. Recorded Jewish settlement began only in 1818 with the arrival of Jews from Morocco. By 1848, the Jewish population of the Azores had reached 250, of which the majority resided in Ponta Delgada on Saõ Miguel Island. See EJ, Vol. III, col. 1012