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Bidding Information
Lot #    18098
Auction End Date    6/12/2007 10:49:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Sefer Sedarim
Title (Hebrew)    ספר סדרים
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Abraham ben Daniel Delaville
City    Amsterdam
Publisher    David Proops
Publication Date    184?
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [2], 19 pp., octavo, 185:105 mm., nice margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in modern boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Only edition of this unsual book of verse consisting of fifty-four poems on the weekly Torah portions and on the death of Moses by R. Abraham ben Daniel Delaville. The title page is followed by a dedication to the heads of the Seminary in Amsterdam, introductory verse, and then the text. Each Torah reading, beginning with Bereshit and concluding with ha-Berakhah has verse consisting of six lines. It is followed by Zikkaron Moshe, on the death of Moses. Zikkaron Moshe is in three parts, each of twelve lines. In both parts the text is in a single column in square vocalized letters.

R. Abraham ben Daniel Delaville, a poet of stature, was born in 1807 and died on 6 Sivan (May 18, 1877) (Shavuot) 1877.

          
Paragraph 2    כולל ארבעה וחמשים שירים קטנים, מסדרים על סדר פרשיות התורה, ואחריהם זכרון משה על מות משה רבנו ... מאת אברהם בן דניאל דעלאוויללע ...
          
Reference
Description		    BE sameh 263; CD-EPI 0118143
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Holland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Poetry
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica