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Shesh Shearim – Azharot by Rabbi Shlomo Sasportas – Amsterdam, 1725 – First Edition / Amsterdam, 1727 – Spanish Bilingual Edition
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Two editions of Shesh Shearim, with Azharot, by R. Shlomo Sasportas:
• Shesh Shearim, Selichot, confessions and other prayers, with Azharot (poetic enumeration of the mitzvot), by R. Shlomo Sasportas. Amsterdam: R. Moshe Frankfurt, [1725]. First edition.
In this edition the poem is not accompanied by the commentary or translation appearing in the next edition.
[2], 2-27, [1] leaves. 19.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Early parchment binding. Dark stains and minor defects to binding.
[1] leaf with errata, not recorded in Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.
• Shesh Shearim, Azharot (poetic enumeration of the mitzvot) by R. Shlomo Sasportas, with Spanish translation by R. Shlomo Adahan. Amsterdam: Naftali Hertz son of Alexander Ziskind Levi of Emden, [1727]. Hebrew and Spanish.
Includes poem, commentary and translation, with Spanish divisional title page.
Signature in Oriental script on title page.
16, [30] leaves. 21.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Worming (significant worming in some places), affecting text. Old leather binding, with defects.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Spanish and Portuguese – Sephardic Converso Jewry
Spanish and Portuguese – Sephardic Converso Jewry