Sephardic-rite siddur for Shabbat, Rosh Chodesh, fast days, festivals and high holidays. Amsterdam: Yosef son of Menasseh Ben Israel, 1648. Miniature format.
Partial title pages in middle of siddur for festivals, high holidays and fast days.
At end of siddur, calendar for the years 1649-1656.
164, [4]; [1], 168-306, [4] leaves. 8.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Open tear, heavily affecting text of one leaf. New leather binding, with defects (tear to bottom of spine).
The present item is an exceptionally rare copy comprising all parts of the siddur, like the Bodleian Library copy. The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book records the book based on a copy in the Etz Chaim library (also digitized in the NLI catalogue) with a different title page text that doesn't mention fast days, festivals and high holidays. That copy comprises only the first year-round part (164, [4] leaves), without the rest of the parts that appear in the present copy.
Alfei Menashe, 1927, nos. 53, 54.
Illustrated bookplate of Justus Tal, on verso of title page.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
