Sermones hechos sobre diferentes sumptos, compuestos y predicados por el docto ingenio Ishac de Sola [Sermons on various topics, authored and delivered by the scholar Yitzchak de Sola]. Amsterdam: Moseh Diaz, 1704. Spanish.
Ten sermons, speeches and eulogies delivered by R. Yitzchak de Sola (1675-1734) on festivals and special occasions in the Spanish-Portuguese community in Amsterdam – including sermons for Pesach, Sukkot, Shabbat Shuvah, Chanukah, bar mitzvah and more. Some sermons delivered in the Livyat Chen and Baalei Teshuvah yeshivas in Amsterdam. At beginning of book, approbations of rabbis of community: R. Shlomo de Oliveyra and R. Shlomo Yehudah Leon Templo.
At end of book (with divisional title page): Preguntas con sus respuestas hechas, en la Yesibá de Livyat Hen, en las festividades del año [Questions and answers in the Livyat Chen yeshiva on the festivals], by the author Yitzchak de Sola.
Original leather binding; front and back with gilt inscription of owner's name: "Iacob Gomez de Baeza". A Jew by this name, of Sephardic-Portuguese origin, is documented in a notarial inscription in Amsterdam dated 1804, as well as in a death notice in Bordeaux, France, on March 2, 1808, where he is described as a Bordeaux-born merchant, married to Avigayil Rodriguez Ferreira Refael, aged 61.
[3] leaves, 108 pages. 21 cm. Reddish edges. Fair-good condition. Stains, creases and wear. Worming to margins of several leaves. Large open tear to upper part of title page, affecting text (reinforced by mounting on paper, with photocopy text replacements). Half of back endpaper cut off and lacking. Original leather binding, with defects and wear; front binding detached. Open tears to spine.
See: Kayserling, Biblioteca Española Portugueza-Judaica (Strasbourg, 1890), p. 103.
Rare. Not in NLI. Few copies recorded in OCLC (this book was last auctioned as part of the Judaica and Hebraica catalogue of the Maggs Bros. [London, 1926], p. 82, no. 159).
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
