SARUCO, JACOB. & DE LEON, ISHAC.

Gerhard Johan Janson in the House of Israel Mondovy

Amsterdam

1766

Avizos Espirituaës e Instrucçoëns Sagradas, para Cultivar o Engenho da Juventude, no Amor, & Temor Divino [“Spiritual Advice and Sacred Instructions to Raise the Youth in the Love and Fear of God.”]. Text in Portuguese and Hebrew. pp. (16), 111, (1). * BOUND WITH: Saruco, Jahacob (de Selomoh Hisquiau). Praxe da Arithmetica: em que se exercitao todo genero de contas, com methodo breve, & intelligivel. pp. 63, (1). With mathematical tables.

Kayserling 98.

The book bears the Approbation of the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam, Shelomo Salem, as well as several laudatory poems in Hebrew, including one by David ben Yitzchak Leon, son of one of the two co-authors. The book consists of twenty-four Dialogues between Disciple and Master. These cover a broad array of topics regarding Jewish laws and custom. Ishac de Leon, from a Marrano family, resided in Bayonne, where his son David was born. By the time of the book’s publication, De Leon was living in Amsterdam. The co-author Jacob Saruco was Chief Rabbi of The Hague. See M.H. Gans, Memorbook (1977) p. 427.