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BARGAS, ABRAHAM DE, Translator. Traducción de la oración del ajuno de los temblores de tierra [Translation into Spanish of a prayer originally composed in Hebrew by Haham Malachi ben Jacob on the occasion of the earthquake at Leghorn, in January 1742].
Pisa: Evangelista Pugli, 1746.
88 leaves.
8vo, 147 x 90 mm. (5¾ x 3½ in.), rebound in modern gilt lettered leather, some slight staining, minor browning.
FIRST EDITION. Kayserling p. 16; not in Steinschneider or Friedenwald.
Translation into Spanish of a prayer originally composed in Hebrew by haham Malahi de Jacob Coen. Abraham de Bargas (c. 1740), was a Jewish physician of Spanish converso origin. After leaving Spain, Bargas settled first in France, where he was personal physician to the Duke of Gramot, and later in Italy, where he became the physician to the Leghorn Jewish community (See: Encyclopaedia Judaica vol. 4, col. 220.) This is one of the few editions printed on behalf of the Sephardi Jews of Pisa. The work contains a laudatory sonnet by haham Raphael Meldola, (Leghorn, 1685-1748), elected rabbi of Pisa in 1722 and author of a large number of theological and ethical works.
Pisa: Evangelista Pugli, 1746.
88 leaves.
8vo, 147 x 90 mm. (5¾ x 3½ in.), rebound in modern gilt lettered leather, some slight staining, minor browning.
FIRST EDITION. Kayserling p. 16; not in Steinschneider or Friedenwald.
Translation into Spanish of a prayer originally composed in Hebrew by haham Malahi de Jacob Coen. Abraham de Bargas (c. 1740), was a Jewish physician of Spanish converso origin. After leaving Spain, Bargas settled first in France, where he was personal physician to the Duke of Gramot, and later in Italy, where he became the physician to the Leghorn Jewish community (See: Encyclopaedia Judaica vol. 4, col. 220.) This is one of the few editions printed on behalf of the Sephardi Jews of Pisa. The work contains a laudatory sonnet by haham Raphael Meldola, (Leghorn, 1685-1748), elected rabbi of Pisa in 1722 and author of a large number of theological and ethical works.