Lot 99
Mishnat Chassidim - Amsterdam, 1764 - Siddur HaAri, Nusach Sefarad (Ashkenazi)
Mishnat Chassidim, with a Nusach Sefarad siddur (Nusach Ashkenaz, with corrections in parentheses for Nusach Sefarad), by the kabbalist R. Immanuel Chai Ricchi. "Year-round prayers according to the siddur of the holy and pure Arizal". Amsterdam: Leib Sussmans, [1764]. Approbations by R. Shaul Rabbi of Amsterdam and R. Shaul HaLevi Rabbi of The Hague.
Incomplete copy. [4], 208, [3], 213-230 leaves. Lacking leaves 209-212, which were replaced by leaves 141-143 (3 leaves) from the Amsterdam 1742 edition of Mishnat Chassidim (replacing the content of the missing leaves; apparently replaced long ago). 20 cm. Good condition. Stains and light wear. Dampstains. Marginal repair to last leaf, not affecting text. Stamp and inscription on title page. New leather binding.
One of the first siddurim of Nusach Sefarad - the Ashkenazi kabbalistic Arizal rite, which later became the accepted rite in all Chassidic communities.
Stefansky Classics, no. 421.
The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, no. 182654, lists [7] additional leaves, which do not appear in this copy, nor in the digitized copy on the HebrewBooks website. The NLI copies also do not include these seven leaves.
