Auction 104 Part 1 Rare and Important Items
Seder Berachot, With Passover Haggadah – Spanish – Amsterdam, 1650 – Printed by Shmuel Soeiro, Son of Menasseh Ben Israel – Rare
Opening: $1,000
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Sold for: $3,250
Including buyer's premium
Sedur Berachot, Orden de las bendiciones, Conforme el uso del K.K. de España [Year-round Sephardic-rite book of blessings]. Amsterdam: Shmuel Soeiro, son of Menasseh Ben Israel, 1650. Spanish.
Year-round order of blessings and prayers, including Passover Haggadah, counting of the Omer and more. On last leaf, list of prayers based on order of appearance.
Fine copy.
36 leaves. 14.5 cm. Good condition. Light stains. New parchment binding.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Rare edition. Not recorded in NLI catalogue.
See: Harm Den Boer, Spanish and Portuguese Editions from the Northern Netherlands in Madrid and Lisbon Public Collections, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Autumn 1988), pp. 97-143, no. 63.
Not recorded in Alfei Menashe catalogue, 1927.
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