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Order of Blessings – Spanish – Amsterdam, 1724 – Printed for Descendants of Marranos – Rare - Order of blessings, ”Orden de las bendiciones, Conforme el uso del K.K. de España” [Order of Blessings, according to the rite of the Spanish communities]. Amsterdam: Yshak de Cordova, 1724. Spanish. Order of year-round blessings and prayers, including Passover Haggadah. The printer, Yshak de Cordova, was the son of the printer R. Yaakov Chaim de Cordova of Brazil. Amsterdam had a large Sephardic community in the 17th and 18th centuries. Most of its members were descendants of Marranos who came from Spain and Portugal about a century after the expulsion. The present prayer book was printed for the use of the descendants of those Marranos, who were not fluent in Hebrew. 69, [1] pages. 14.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Small marginal tears. Early binding. Rare edition. Not recorded in NLI catalog.