Seder Tephiloth Midei Chodesh Bechodsho [daily prayers]. According to Sephardic rite and the custom of Bukhara. Prepared by Jacob Samandor.

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

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

Back to Catalogue

<Previous Lot

/461

Next Lot>

Lot 330

(LITURGY)

Seder Tephiloth Midei Chodesh Bechodsho [daily prayers]. According to Sephardic rite and the custom of Bukhara. Prepared by Jacob Samandor.

Title within typographical border. ff. 145. Stained in places, thumbed, clean tear on final leaf neatly repaired, old-hand Bucharian (?) annotations on front and back free endpapers. Modern calf-backed marbled boards. 4to Vinograd, Vilna 371; no copy in the JNUL

Vilna: Abraham Isaac Fishkin 1836

Est: $500 - $700

Due to the severe restrictions placed by the Russian Government on printing Hebrew books, this particular prayer-book for Bukharian Jews had to be sent to Vilna for printing. Concerning the censorship of the liturgy in this prayer-book, see See Ch. Liberman, Ohel Roche”l Vol. I (1980) p.363.