Entermientos Gustozos, o Dialogos Burlescos, Entre un Judio, Turco, Reformado, y Catolico

(SILVEIRA, ABRAHAM GOMEZ)

(Amsterdam)

1737?

Large Handsome Manuscript in Spanish. Brown sepia ink on paper. Elegantly bound in mottled calf with gilt extra

Kayserling, pp. 102-103. Cf. L. Fuks and R.G. Fuks-Mansfeld, Hebrew and Judaic Manuscripts in Amsterdam Public Collections (1975) Vol. II, Livraria Ets Haim, no. 246

“Enjoyable Entertainment, or Burlesque Dialogues between a Jew, a Turk, A Protestant and a Catholic.” A satire in poetic form. The Author, Abraham Gomez Silveira was born in Arevalo, province of Avila, Spain, and died in Amsterdam. A poet and Jewish apologist, Silveira was a member of the poetic academy founded in Amsterdam by D. Manuel de Belmonte. See K. Brown and H. den Boer (Eds.), El Barroco Sefardi Abraham Gomez Silveira, 1656-1741 (2000) and the review by M. Orfali in Sefarad, Vol. 70:1 (2010), pp. 251-54 A notation in pencil on the flyleaf by Alfonso Cassuto draws our attention to the date "1737" occurring within the text of the manuscript on f. 59v