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![Order of readings and tikun for the nights of Shavuot and Hoshana Rabba. Amsterdam: David de Castro Tartas, [1669].
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![Order of readings and tikun for the nights of Shavuot and Hoshana Rabba. Amsterdam: David de Castro Tartas, [1669].
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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
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Order of readings and tikun for the nights of Shavuot and Hoshana Rabba. Amsterdam: David de Castro Tartas, [1669].
On leaf 74, poem with acrostic of Torah portions by R. Shlomo de Oliveira.
Signature deleted with ink on title page.
29, [1], 30-44, 44-74 leaves. 14 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear. Small marginal tears and open tears to title page and several other leaves. Original wood and leather binding, elaborate and decorated, with remains of clasps. Minor defects to binding.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
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Sephardic siddur. Amsterdam: Uri son of R. Aharon Levi, 1678. Pocket format.
With calendar of Rosh Chodesh and holidays, 1679-1687.
Last 18 leaves include Selichot for Hoshana Rabba and fast days.
[1], 2-274, [12]; 18 leaves. Leaves 264-267 misordered. Approx. 10 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear and signs of use. Open tears to title page, to first and last leaves, and several other leaves, affecting title frame and text, repaired with paper filling (with handwritten replacement of title frame). Old leather binding with gilt decorations. Defects to binding.
Bibliographically unknown edition.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
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Seder Meah Berachot – blessings, prayers and piyyutim, including the Passover Haggadah, with Spanish translation. Amsterdam: Albertus Magnus, 1687. Approbations by R. Yitzchak Aboab, R. Yaakov Sasportas and R. Shlomo de Oliveira.
Pocket format. Early leather binding (repaired), with gilt decorations and clasp.
Prayers for various occasions, such as circumcision of converts and slaves, blessing upon the purchase of a slave, redemption of a vineyard, prayer for Marranos burnt at stake in Spain and Portugal, flogging, and more. Also includes laws of shechitah in rhyme, tables for calculating tekufot and festivals, and chronological list of events in the history of the Jewish people until the 1648-1649 Chmielnicki massacres (in Spanish).
Hebrew text and Spanish translation on facing pages (with corresponding pagination).
The editor of the book, Binyamin Senior Godines, writes in his introduction that he found the manuscript of the book in the library of R. Yitzchak son of Matityahu Aboab (mentioned in the Spanish preface as the translator of the book).
Does not include extra illustrated title page.
[10] leaves, [1], 303, 304; 54, [11], 7, [20] pages. Pages 205-254 bound out of place after p. 180 (including facing pages with corresponding numbers). Approx. 13 cm. Gilt edges (somewhat faded). Good-fair condition. Stains, including light dampstains. Small marginal tears to several leaves. Early leather binding (repaired), with gilt decorations and clasp (detached). Defects to binding.
According to Fuks, the printer Albertus Magnus did not have his own press (although his name is mentioned on the title page of this book and several others), and the book was likely printed at the press of David de Castro Tartas, due to his experience printing bilingual books. See further: L. Fuks and R.G. Fuks-Mansfeld, Hebrew Typography in the Northern Netherlands, Leiden 1987, Nos. 606-607.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Tefillah LeKibutz Galuyotenu, prayer for ingathering of exiles, and Tikun for seminal discharge, and declaration in Yiddish. Amsterdam, [1705]. Only edition.
Anthology of prayers by R. Avraham Eliyahu son of R. Natan Margaliot, posek in Náchod (Moravia; present-day Czech Republic), and the community leader R. Lieberman Eliezer son of R. Yiftach Yospa Manzpach, prayer leader in Worms.
Handwritten glosses and short marginal notes.
12 leaves. 14.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. Margins of some leaves repaired with paper. Bookplate. Old parchment binding.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Year-round Selichot, according to the Ashkenazic rite, with the Masbir commentary. Amsterdam: Shlomo Katz Proops, 1712. With approbation of the Chacham Tzvi and others.
Original elaborate leather binding, with many gilt decorations and original color endpaper.
[4], 146 leaves. 20.5 cm. Most leaves in good-fair condition, several leaves in fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear, tears and open tears to several leaves, affecting text. Close trimming bordering page headers in several places. Original elaborate leather binding. Defects to binding.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Tefillah Naah ViYesharah, year-round siddur with halachot, edited by R. Shlomo Zalman London. Amsterdam: Hertz Levi Rofe, 1737.
Small format. Fine original leather binding, with gilt decorations and decorated clasp.
On verso of title page, introduction by editor, R. Shlomo Zalman London.
Includes prayers for weekdays, Shabbat, festivals and high holidays, with Torah readings for Monday and Thursday.
[1], 84; 41, 43-83, [1] leaves. 13 cm. Gilt edges. Good condition. Stains. Original leather binding, with silver clasp. Defects to binding.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Set of machzorim according to Carpentras rite (France), for Yom Kippur, the Three Festivals and the Four Fasts and Parashiot. Amsterdam: Hertz Levi Rofe (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur), and partners Hertz Levi Rofe and son-in-law Kosman (Three Festivals and Fasts), [1739-1762]. Complete four-volume set. First edition.
The Carpentras prayer and piyyut rites are unique to the southeast French community. Its text was copied in manuscript machzorim for community members until the local scribes were no longer able to meet the demand. At that point a young local Torah scholar named R. Avraham son of Shmuel de Monteux (Montel) began to print the unique Carpentras prayer rite. The two high holiday volumes were printed first, in 600 copies only, and are therefore particularly rare.
Gilt inscription of owner's name on back of binding of Rosh Hashanah volume: Samuel Alphandery", and stamps of "Leon Alphandery, Salon".
On margins of Yom Kippur volume, handwritten glosses and corrections.
Four volumes. Volume I (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur eve): [2], 14, [1], 15-17, [1], 18-71, [6], 72-114 leaves. Volume II (Yom Kippur): [2], 185 leaves. Volume III (Three Festivals): [2], 21, 19-30, [1], 31-33, [1], 34-149, [4], 150-219, [3] leaves. Volume IV (Four Fasts and Four Parashiot): [2], 3, 5-151, [1] leaves. 17-19 cm. Varying condition of volumes, fair-good to fair. Stains, including dampstains, and wax stains to some volumes. Traces of former dampness to some leaves in second volume. Wear. Tears and open tears, affecting text. Detached leaves in several places. Early leather bindings (non-uniform). Wear and defects to bindings.
There are several variants of the Three Festivals volume. Some copies, including the present one, include the text of Birkat HaMazon in the Passover Haggadah, and have different pagination (as documented in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book).
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Sep 2, 2025
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Seder HaTamid, "siddur according to the rite of the four communities", Part II with Shabbat and festival prayers, Pirkei Avot, songs and piyyutim, edited by R. Eliyahu Karmi. Avignon: printer not indicated, 1767. Without Part I with weekday prayers.
Siddur according to rite of the Arba Kehilloth, four communities in the Venaissin region in southern France: Carpentras, Avignon, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue and Cavaillon.
Only a few Hebrew books were published in Avignon in the 18th and 19th centuries.
[1], 104, 106-228, [1] blank leaf; 33, [1] leaves. Misfoliation. 19 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dark stains to margins of several leaves. Margins of several leaves repaired with paper, affecting text. Signs of use. Original binding, with leather spine. Wear and defects to binding and spine.
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![Siddur for festivals, according to the Sephardic rite. Amsterdam: Avraham son of Refael Chizkiyahu Athias, [1740]. Miniatu](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/260.jpg "Festival Machzor – Amsterdam, 1740 – Miniature Format – Poem by Ramcha")
![Siddur for festivals, according to the Sephardic rite. Amsterdam: Avraham son of Refael Chizkiyahu Athias, [1740]. Miniatu](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/260_1.jpg "Festival Machzor – Amsterdam, 1740 – Miniature Format – Poem by Ramcha")
![Siddur for festivals, according to the Sephardic rite. Amsterdam: Avraham son of Refael Chizkiyahu Athias, [1740]. Miniatu](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/260_2.jpg "Festival Machzor – Amsterdam, 1740 – Miniature Format – Poem by Ramcha")
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Siddur for festivals, according to the Sephardic rite. Amsterdam: Avraham son of Refael Chizkiyahu Athias, [1740]. Miniature format.
Original leather bindings, with gilt decorations (mostly faded).
Prayers for three festivals, including Passover Haggadah and Pirkei Avot.
At pp. 180b-181a, in the Tikun Simchat Torah, appears a poem for Chatan Torah and Chatan Bereshit composed by R. Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (the Ramchal). The Ramchal authored this poem for the Chatan Torah Yitzchak son of Avraham Nunes Enriques, and Chatan Bereshit Aharon de Yosef de Pinto, although they are not mentioned in this printing.
[1], 2-300 leaves. 8.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Wear and creases. Few tears, including open tear affecting text of one leaf. Original leather binding. Defects to binding (binding somewhat loose; leather coating of back detached).
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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Seder Chamishah Taaniyot, service for fast days according to the Sephardic rite. Amsterdam: Avraham son of Refael Chizkiyahu Athias, [1740].
Miniature edition.
Prayers and Torah readings for the Fast of Gedaliah, the 10th of Tevet, Taanit Esther, the 17th of Tamuz and Tishah BeAv.
199, [1] leaves. Approx. 8 cm. Good condition. Stains. Close trimming of title page, bordering text. Fine new leather binding.
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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Brit Yitzchak, Tikun for the eve of the eighth day, before the circumcision, and Tikun for the mohel. Amsterdam: Yisrael Mondovy for Gerard Johann Janson, [1768]. At center of title page, woodcut of circumcision.
Original leather binding.
Includes circumcision for an adult and Marranos.
On last three pages, chronological list of mohels in Amsterdam and other Portuguese communities (including Bayonne, Suriname and Curaçao), with their dates of activity, between 1721 and 1765.
[2], 17, [1] leaves. 17.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Original leather binding, with gilt decorations. Defects to binding.
Bookplate of scholar and collector "Sigmund Seeligmann".
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Siddur for Simchat Torah and other holidays, "according to the Shingly rite". Amsterdam: Yosef, Yaakov and Avraham sons of Shlomo Proops, 1769.
Siddur according to the rite of the communities of Cochin, India. Cochin Jews traditionally hold Shingly (Cranganore / Kodungallur) to be the first site of Jewish settlement in the region (Kodungallur is a port city 18 km north of Cochin).
On title page: "These were all dispatched from the community of Cochin, from the elder R. Yechezkel Rachabi, to the community of the Hague… to be printed… in Amsterdam".
The siddur includes prayers for Simchat Torah, wedding ceremony (for wedding and Sheva Berachot, including piyyutim), havdalah, circumcision, Purim, prayers and piyyutim for Pesach evening, a brief selichot service and songs and piyyutim for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Ownership inscription on title page.
[1], 100 leaves. Approx. 16 cm. Good condition. Stains. New binding, with laces for fastening.
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