Tephilah Nechonah [prayers for the entire year]. According to the custom of the German and Polish Jews. Arranged in accordance with the daily prayer book of Shabbetai Sofer ben Isaac of Przemysl.

AUCTION 13 | Tuesday, June 26th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts Together With Fine Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Tephilah Nechonah [prayers for the entire year]. According to the custom of the German and Polish Jews. Arranged in accordance with the daily prayer book of Shabbetai Sofer ben Isaac of Przemysl.

Hebrew with English translation. Published for the benefit of the Jews’ Free School. pp. (15), ff. 112, 112*-239; (33). Lightly browned, stained in places, a.e.g. Later blind-tooled morocco, gently rubbed at extremites. 4to Vinograd, London 249; Roth, London 126

London: F. Kiernan 1822

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $650

R. Shabbetai Sofer was commissioned by the Rabbis of the Council of Three Lands to publish an authorised and accurate edition of the Prayer-book, which he did with much reference to the now lost Siddur of R. Solomon Luria. It was first published in 1617 in Prague. As the foremost grammarian of his generation he was accorded glowing approbations from the greatest Rabbinic personages of the day. The manuscript of R. Shabbetai Sofer’s daily prayer book was sold by Christie’s, Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books from The Library of the London Beth Din, New York, 23rd June 1999, Lot 106.