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

AUCTION 31 | Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew and Other Printed Books

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

Title within typographic border. Title and many initial letters historiated. Woodcut illustrations. With Yiddish translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type. ff. 47. Usual browning and staining, lower right hand corner of one leaf repaired affecting first two letters of the word “shabaton.” Half calf, rubbed at edges. 4to Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 465; Yudlov 159; Turniansky 41

Frankfurt a/Main: Shlomo Zalman Apterod & Moshe Gamburg 1727

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

Compendium including Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, Birth, Marriage and Death rites, concluding with an Hagadah for Passover. The woodcuts illustrate selected holidays and observances through the annual religious cycle. The prototype of these images was Menasseh ben Israel’s Sepher Minhagim, Amsterdam 1645. The present Frankfurt “Minhagim-style” illustrations are slightly different from the Amsterdam style. Primitively wrought, they carry a rather striking angularity in their starkness