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LOT 45:
Prayer Book with Historic Significance: Meah Berachot. Rare Complete Copy
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Prayer Book with Historic Significance: Meah Berachot. Rare Complete Copy
Meah Berachot - blessings arranged for us by the ancients. With many additional tikkunim. With blessings, prayers and piyyutim for the annual festivals and a Passover Haggadah. Amsterdam, 1688. Especially sought-after sefer. Rare condition.
Work of historic significance, printed for the anusim who immigrated to Amsterdam and did not yet know Lashon HaKodesh. With special blessings for this period. With "Hashkavat HaSerufim al Kiddush Hashem" (a prayer for the anusim who were burned at the stake by the inquisition). Ritual circumcision service for converts and slaves, a blessing upon purchasing slaves, and more. Also including the halachahs of ritual slaughter in rhyme. Approbations from Rabbi Yitzchak Abuhav, Rabbi Ya'akov Sasportas and Rabbi Shlomo di Olivera.
Illustrated frontispiece with drawing of birkat levanah, birkat shofar, birkat besamim, birkat milah and a drawing of Yitzchak sowing Meah She'arim. Year detail 5447 (תמ"ז/1687) The detailed title page bears a chronogram for תמ"ח/1688 [שימני כח’ת’ם’ על לבך]. One of the first Hebrew sefarim with copperplate etchings.
[5] leaf, 303, 20, [10] pp. Printed without the leaves in Spanish. 12.5 cm. High-quality paper, gilt page cuts.
Very fine condition. Owner's signature. Minimal aging stains. tear in the margins of one or two leaves, without lack. New binding.
