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Three Rare Prayer Booklets – Prayers for Plague – The Netherlands, 1727 – Hebrew, Spanish and Dutch

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Three booklets in one volume, prayers to be saved from plague and illnesses. Amsterdam and the Hague, [ca. 1727]. Hebrew, Spanish and Dutch.

• Order of prayer for mercy against evil sicknesses, according to the Sephardic rite. Amsterdam, [1727]. 11 leaves.

Bound with:
• Orden Delas oraciones y Rogativas compuestas para pedis piedades sobre las enfermedades las malas. Amsterdam, 1727. Spanish. Prayers recited publicly on 28th Tishrei 1727. Translated by R. Shlomo Yehudah Leon Templo. [1], 37 pages.
• De groote Devotie en Gebed, gedaan in de Portugeese Joode Synagogue... wegens de tegenwoordige in zwang gaande Ziektens [Order of prayers recited in the Portuguese synagogue, against evil sicknesses]. The Hague, [1727?]. Dutch. 32 pages.
The prayers were recited publicly on October 13 (28th Tishrei 1727?). Edited at the instruction of R. Shlomo Ayllon.

Three booklets in one volume. Approx. 12 cm. Partially dark paper. Overall good condition. Stains. New leather binding, with gilt decorations.

Rare booklets. Spanish and Dutch booklets not recorded in NLI catalog (only few copies of the Spanish edition recorded in OCLC). The Dutch edition is bibliographically unknown.

Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Manuscripts and Printed Items – Dutch Jewry
Manuscripts and Printed Items – Dutch Jewry