Bidspirit auction | Seder Meah Berachot – Livorno,

Seder Meah Berachot – Livorno, 1652 – Original Parchment Binding – Pocket Format - Seder Meah Berachot, ”Order of hundred blessings each Jew must recite each day, following the rite of all communities”. Livorno: Yedidiah son of R. Yitzchak Gabbai, author of Kaf Nachat, 1652. Pocket format. Original parchment binding. Comprises various prayers: psalms to be recited after meals, Birkat HaMazon, kiddush for Shabbat, songs and psalms for Shabbat, order of Motzaei Shabbat (with various songs), bedtime Shema reading, and more. Several psalms added in handwriting on back endpaper. Handwritten inscriptions (non-Hebrew) on front and back endpaper. 132, 134-151, [1] leaves. Lacking leaf 133. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear. Marginal tears to several leaves. Title page and last leaf have parts of text deleted with ink. Original parchment binding. Defects to binding. [1] leaf at end with index, not recorded in Bibliography of the Hebrew Book or in NLI catalogue copy. One of the first books printed in Livorno (for more information on R. Yedidiah Gabbai's press in Livorno, see Lot 116). Stamp on endpaper: ”From the books of Avraham Marx”.