Auction 104 Part 1 Rare and Important Items
Order of Study for Night of Shavuot and Hoshana Rabba – Amsterdam, 1734 – Spanish – Printed in Red ink
Opening: $1,000
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Sold for: $4,250
Including buyer's premium
Orden de leccion de Tora, Nebihim y Quetubim [Order of study of Torah, Neviim and Ketuvim, for the night of Shavuot and Hoshana Rabba]. Amsterdam: Mordehay de Is. Levy Montesinos, 1734. Spanish.
Printed entirely in red ink.
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Amsterdam was home to a large Sephardi community. Many of its members were descendants of Marranos who emigrated from Spain and Portugal a century after the expulsion. The present book was printed for the members of this community who were not familiar with the Hebrew language.
[56] leaves. 15 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Wear to margins of some leaves. Small marginal tears and open tears to several leaves (tear affecting text to one leaf, without loss). New leather binding, with minor defects.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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