Sefer Shir Yedidut – poems and prayers with words of praise and appreciation recited in Torino throughout the entire year. With hymns in commemoration of historic events. Mantua, 1778. Historically important work.
Includes a poem in honor of members of the Zrizim Society; Shir HaOleh al Mokdah in memory of those burned at the stake in Torino on the second day of Passover in 1775; refrain commemorating the redemption of the city from the French on 28 Elul; a poem for the fire festival, (in commemoration of the miracle the occurred the night of Simchat Torah in 1691, when a flame fell into the aron kodesh here in Torino during Shacharit on Simchat Torah); a prayer for droughts, a prayer for viral pox – in a foreign language, and a bakashah for times of war, heaven forbid.
24 leaf, 17 cm. The page preceding the title page bears a lengthy notation, signed in a foreign language.
Fine condition. Aging stains. Original leather binding, blemished.