Kerk-zeeden en de gewoonten die huiden in gebruik zijn onder de Jooden, by R. Yehudah Aryeh (Leon) of Modena. Amsterdam: Timotheus ten Hoorn, 1683 (half-title engraving dated 1684). First Dutch edition.

The History of the Rites of the Jews was first published in Paris, 1637, in Italian, at the request of the English ambassador to Venice, for King James I of England, and was later translated into several languages.

The first Dutch edition was translated by Abraham Godart and bound together with a work by Le sieur de Simonville (pseudonym of French priest Richard Simon), comparing Jewish and Christian customs. The present edition is accompanied by engravings (by artist Jan Luyken) depicting wedding, divorce, chalitzah and circumcision.

The author,
R. Yehudah Aryeh of Modena (1571-1648), a rabbi of Venice, teacher, cantor, grammarian and poet. He was an orator and a gifted preacher as well as an original and fascinating apologist, and a prolific author.

[31] leaves, 96, 99-200 pages, [4] leaves; 201, [6] pages + [1] engraving (half-title) and [4] folding plates with engravings. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Small marginal tears to several leaves. Tears to some engravings, slightly affecting illustrations, repaired with paper to verso. Worming in a few places. Original parchment binding, with defects (front side detached).