Benjamin Senior Godines (ed.) Me’ah Berachoth [Orden de Bendiciones].

Estimate: $6,000–$9,000
Hammer price: $5,000

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author

(IBERIAN / SEPHARDIC LITERATURE).

printer

Albertus Magnus

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1687-88

Description

Text in Hebrew only. Engraved frontispiece by the Jewish artist Benjamin Godiness depicting Man’s Five Senses by way of the performance of five ceremonial acts finely hand-colored.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 550; Fuks, Amsterdam 606; Gans, Memorbook p. 138; Roth, Jewish Art, col. 474

summary

A beautiful, compact volume. This compendium of ritual laws and prayers was published for the benefit of Marrano refugees. It appeared in two issues - with, and without Spanish translation. This Hebrew only issue is far less common. Provenance: Sotheby's 84th Street Galleries, Sale 5209, Lot 27.

pp. (10), 303, 20, (10); followed by Spanish and Hebrew supplement: pp. 7, 7, (16), 36. Lightly browned. Contemporary mottled calf over wooden boards with twin brass clasps and hinges, rubbed. 12mo.

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