Ibur Shanim [on the Calendar, and other customs through the year].

IBN SUSAN, ISSACHAR.

Giovanni di Gara

Venice

1579

Second, amended edition. Numerous Calendrical tables and spheres. Title within garlanded architectural arch. Signatures on title include that of Sa’adia Azulai.

Vinograd, Venice 640.

First appeared in Constantinople 1564 under the title Tikun Issachar. The author writes in the introduction here that this Venice edition is to be preferred, as the text of the original is corrupt. Ibn Susan a member of an illustrious Moroccan Family, lived most of his life in the Land of Israel. His researches among the Mostarabian Community (the ancient Jewish Community permanently resident in the Holy Land) resulted in this Ibur Shanim, a code of synagogue custom, liturgical usage and the unique ways of life that existed among the Jews of the Holy Land. After 1492, these native customs increasingly fell into disuse due to the influx of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula who carried with them ubiquitous Minhag Sepharad.