Birchath Hamazon - Dos Benshen. [compendium of selected festive rites]. According to the custom of Germany and Poland.

AUCTION 12 | Tuesday, March 13th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Birchath Hamazon - Dos Benshen. [compendium of selected festive rites]. According to the custom of Germany and Poland.

Title with woodcut typographic border. With many woodcut illustrations and historiated initial letters. Hebrew, with Judeo-German translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type. ff.71. Neat marginal repair on f.10, few light stains in places, otherwise a very fine copy. Modern blind-tolled tan morocco boards. 4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 1180; Turniansky no. 39 (illustrated) in: Alei Sefer vol. X (1982) ; Yudlov 144

Amsterdam: Solomon Proops 1722

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

PRICE REALIZED $5,500

An Exceptionally Fine Wide-Margined Copy. Compendium including Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, Birth, Marriage and Death, concluding with an Hagadah for Passover. The illuminating woodcuts illustrate selected holidays and observances through the annual religious cycle. The prototype of these images was Menasseh ben Israel’s Sepher Minhagim of 1645.