Maduro, Selomoh Levi. Brith Yitzchak.

(CEREMONIES).

I. Mondovi for G.J. Jansson

Amsterdam

1768

Title within typographic border, with woodcut illustration of the circumcision ceremony by A. Santcroos. Tailpiece consisting of ritual laver, an allusion to the Levitic descent of the editor. Two-page Portuguese dedication to the Sephardic Mohelim. With Haskamah of R. Selomoh Salem, Rabbi of the Sephardic community of Amsterdam, previously Rabbi of Belgrade (Serbia).

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1946.

Prayers in relation to Brith Milah, bringing a “Chut Shel Chesed” upon the newborn child in accordance with the Sephardic rite. Final three pages in Portuguese list those indiduals qualified as Mohelim and resident throughout the Spanish & Portuguese Old and New Worlds: Amsterdam, the Hague, London, Hamburg, Bayonne, Curaçao, and Surinam. Also contains an extraordinary ceremony with prayers for the circumcision of slaves.