Thesouro dos Dinim

MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL.

n.p

Amsterdam

1710

Text in Portuguese. Five parts in one volume, all complete. Divisional titles. With Curaçao inscription at end (see below).

Catalogue Ets Haim 412; not in Kayserling or Silva Rosa.

A ‘Thesaurus of Laws’ which first appeared in parts between 1645 and 1647. This religious guide intended for Marranos rejoining the Jewish faith sets out all the daily, weekly and seasonal precepts required of Judaism. This copy with striking inscription on rear free-endpaper relating to Abraham de Mordechai Levy Maduro, Hazan of the Congregation de Los Israelitas, St. Thomas, dated in Curaçao, see M.A. Cohen, Sephardim in the Americas in: American Jewish Archives vol. XLIV (1992) pp. 153-5 and 190-1.