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LITURGY. - BLESSINGS. ME'AH BERAKHOT. Seder Berakhot. Orden de bendiciones y las ocaziones en que se deven dezir [Spanish/Hebrew edition of the prayers and blessings for the entire year, including relevant laws and commentaries, according to the Sephardic rite, edited by Benjamin Senior Godines; with four separately paginated additions and with an unpaginated Calendario Perpetuo and Tabla de Guia para el Calendario]. Amsterdam: Albertus Magnus, 1687. 364 pages. Engraved frontispiece (dated 5447 [1687], signed B[enjamin Senior] G[odines]); title-page in Hebrew and Spanish. 12mo, 129 x 69 mm. (5 1/8 x 2¾in.), rebound in modern leather, gilt-lettered on spine, egdes gilt and gauffered; a few large wormholes on title and engraved title (tape-repaired), some other scattered worming (mostly marginal). Vinograd, Amsterdam 536; Kayserling, p. 62; Steinschneider 2619b; Fuks, HTN 2, 607; Yudlov, Ginzei Yisrael 277; not in Zedner. As the famous Amsterdam bookbinder Albertus Magnus, who died in Amsterdam in 1689, did not have a printing house of his own, it has to be assumed that this Spanish/Hebrew book of blessings and its Hebrew edition were actually printed in the officina of another Amsterdam Hebrew printer, most likely David de Castro Tartas (see Fuks). Included are a Haggadah for Passover, with a recipe for Haroset, prayers for martyrs, instructions on constructing a Mikvah and an index of blessings. The Spanish translation of the benedictions was produced by the renowned Sephardic benefactor Isaac de Matatiah Aboab.