Minhagim. According to the custom of Germany and Poland

AUCTION 29 | Monday, June 20th, 2005 at 1:00

Superior Hebrew Printed Books: Singular Selections from Two Distingushed Private Collections with American-Judaica.

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Lot 12

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Minhagim. According to the custom of Germany and Poland

With many woodcut illustrations of Jewish ceremonial life. Hebrew, with Judeo-German translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type. The Judah A. Joffe Copy ff. 61. Browned and foxed in places, title and f. 5 in facsimile. Contemporary morocco. Sm.4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 1210

Amsterdam: Isaac di Cordova 1723

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

The many illuminating woodcuts illustrate selected holidays and observances through the religious and life cycles. They include: Bedikath Chametz (portraying a family search for chametz - the child holding a candle beneath the table, the father brushing the chamez into a wooden utensil and the mother balancing pitchers of water in case of fire, see f. 14b); kashering of utensils for Passover; going to a mill to grind the wheat for Matzah; a barber cutting hair on Lag Ba’Omer; marriage, circumcision, etc