Homily by Abraham Mendes Chumaceiro and annotations on the building of the Sephardic synagogue in Amsterdam in 1675, 18th century copy
Contents:
30-34, 42, 46: blank
p. 1-29: Sermão Moral que Pregou R. Ab[raha]m Mendes Chumaçero no KK de Amst[e]r[dam] em Sabath Emor a 17 de Jiar de A[nn]o 5500 (1740).
p. 35-36: Financial data on the building of the Amsterdam synagogue, beginning with Nov. 26th, 1670. Text in Portuguese and Spanish.
p. 37-40: Annotations on the location of the synagogue, 13 Kislev, 5431 (November 26th, 1670).
p. 40: Members of the Board of the synagogue: Isaac de Pinto, treasurer; Abraham da Veiga, Jacob Aboab Ozório, Samuel Vaz, David Salom de Azevedo, Jacob Pereira and Isaac H.z Coutinho, trustees.
p. 41, 43-49: More financial data on the building of the synagogue.
Belonged to the collection of David Montezinos.
Text in Portuguese with some Hebrew quotations and a part in Spanish / Paper / 20,1 x 15,9 cm. / 2 parts, I: [14], II: [6] ff. (rest of the book blank) / Variety of lines to a page / Current writing, Hebrew quotations in unvocalised square writing / Title homily written on top of p. 1 / Contemporary vellum binding.
Fuks 52. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.