Seder Tefilot mi-Kol ha-Shanah, …Tehillim, …u-Ma'amadot, Amsterdam: Joseph Athias, 1668

48^o (3  5/8  x 1  5/8  in.; 93 x 41 mm). collation:1-69⁸ = 552 leaves. Three title pages. Browned; minor marginal losses not affecting text. Gilt and gauffered. Old brown morocco. Brass clasp, another lacking. Rubbed.

a unique copy of an otherwise unknown edition

This diminutive pocket-sized prayer book would have provided for the complete liturgical needs of a seventeenth century Dutch Jew. It includes the entire daily liturgy as well as all necessary prayers for Sabbath, Holidays, pilgrimage festivals, and fast-days, as well as Torah readings for every Monday, Thursday, and Sabbath afternoon. Two additional sections, each have a discrete title page (though they are numbered sequentially within the volume). These contain the entire book of Psalms and the Ma'amadot (separate sections of scriptural, mishnaic, and talmudic selections for each day of the week, recited after the Shaharit service.) The work was printed in 1668 by Joseph Athias, descendant of a Spanish converso family. On the first title page, Athias pays tribute to his martyred father Abraham, who, still living secretly as a Jew in Spain, was burned at the stake at an auto da fe in Cordoba in 1665. Athias, who printed both in Hebrew and in vernacular languages was the first Jewish printer accepted into the Amsterdam Bookprinters Guild.

This work is unknown to Steinschneider, Fuks, or Vinograd; No record of this work is known.