(Seder LeBrith Milah)

AUCTION 23 | Tuesday, March 30th, 2004 at 1:00

Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews College Library, London The Third Portion

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Lot 213

(CIRCUMCISION)

(Seder LeBrith Milah)

Manuscript on paper. Written in a precise, neat Aschkenazic hand with square and cursive Hebrew letters. Accomplished in red, blue and brown ink. With instructions for Birchath HaMazon in Judeo-German and piyutim by Ephraim of Bonn pp,34. Modern boards. Rectangular 12mo.

Germany: 19th century

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

Contains prayers to be recited the night before the Brith appealing good health for the mother and baby and that the circumcision should properly performed. The final leaf contains a prescription in Latin to monitor the flow of blood