Seder Tephiloth [prayers for weekday, Sabbath and select personal and festive events through the year]. According to Sephardic rite.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,000

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(LITURGY)

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Isaac ben Solomon Rafael Judah Leon Templo

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1726

Description

Unusual engraved frontispiece including banner depicting a lion with the words, ‘Judah is a young cub’ (Gur Aryeh Yehudah)hanging from the Temple Ark as the four-headed Vision from the Book of Daniel hovers overhead. Eighty-year Hebrew calendar at end, several contemporary manuscript calculations. Prayer times through the year for the Community of Amsterdam recorded in Spanish. Endpapers with previous owner’s annotations in Hebrew and Spanish. Wider margins. Finely bound.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1284.

ff. (1), 243, (1). Foxed, with few stains. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf over wooden boards, twin clasps and hinges, darkened, expertly rebacked. 8vo.

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