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Shir HaShirim and Pirkei Avot – Amsterdam, 1683 – With Ladino and Spanish Translation – Original Elaborate Leather Binding
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Paraprasis Caldayca, en los Cantares de Selomoh, Shir HaShirim with Ladino translation (in Latin characters), and Spanish translation of Aramaic Targum; Pirkei Avot, with Spanish translation. Amsterdam: David Tartas, 1683.
Original elaborate leather binding, with many gilt decorations.
Front binding inscribed "Anno 5514 [1754]", and back binding inscribed "R. D. A. M. D. C." (probably initials of Raphael de Abraham Mendes da Costa, born 1741; he may have received the present book as a bar mitzvah gift).
167, [1] pages. Approx. 14 cm. Overall good condition. Stains. Gilt edges bordering title frame. Original leather binding, with minor defects.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Spanish Conversos, Jews of America and the Netherlands in the 17th-18th Centuries
Spanish Conversos, Jews of America and the Netherlands in the 17th-18th Centuries