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

AUCTION 32 | Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Graphics and Ceremonial Art

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

Title with woodcut border. Many woodcut illustrations and historiated initial letters. Hebrew, with Judeo-German translation printed in wayber-taytsch type ff. 71. LIght staining in places, previous owners signature on title (Yitzchak b. Abraham, 1777). Upper margin slightly trimmed, otherwise a good copy. Later marbled boards, rubbed. 4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 1180; Turniansky no. 39 (illustrated) in: Alei Sefer vol. X (1982) ; Yudlov 144

Amsterdam : Solomon Proops 1722

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

Compendium including Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, Birth, Marriage and Death services, concluding with an Hagadah for Passover. The illuminating woodcuts illustrate selected holidays and observances through the annual religious cycle. The prototype of these images was Menasseh ben Israel’s Sepher Minhagim of 1645