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IBN SUSAN, ISSACHAR. Ibur Shanim [on the Calendar, and other customs through the year]. Second, amended edition. Numerous Calendrical tables and spheres. Marginalia. ff. 136. Wormed with repairs, pages laid down with loss to title and final leaf. Modern boards. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 640. Venice, Giovanni di Gara, 1579.     The present work is a record of the customs of the Musta’arab Jewish community of Eretz Israel; Jews who had never ceased residing in the Holy Land. Their practices would become increasingly rare as they slowly took on Spanish Sephardic practices with the arrival of the Sephardim in Ottoman Lands following their expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula.         First appeared in Constantinople 1564 under the title Tikun Issachar. The author writes in the introduction here that this Venice edition is to be preferred, as the text of the original is corrupt.