Sod Hashem im Sharvit Hazahav ve’im Sepher Berith Hashem [Meditations and prayers relating to the circumcision ceremony]

Writtten and illustrated by Joseph Samuel Schwarz. ff.19, black ink on vellum, square Aschkenazi script, commentary in Rabbinic cursive script, title within ornamental frame. Seven pen-and-ink illustrations: f.2r, Sacrifice of Isaac; f.2v, Song of Moses within border of musical instruments; f.9r, Gentleman dressed for Morning Prayers carrying infant toward elaborate Biedermeir-style Chair of Elijah; f.11v, Mohel with infant, assistants to left bearing goblet of wine and braided candle, to right, synagogue congregants dressed in prayer-garb seated at pews; f.15r, Celebratory Feast, participants wearing top-hats, officiating Rabbi seated at one end dressed in canonicals; f.16r, High Priest kindling Temple Menorah, Haman and his ten sons swinging from their gallows (representing the respective prayers for Chanukah and Purim within Grace after Meals; f.17r, Gates of Jerusalem Recent pen markings on title, light wear, recased into later cloth, 8vo

German(?): c.1820