Lida, David. Sepher Sod Hashem [Mohel’s compendium]

AUCTION 41 | Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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(CIRCUMCISION RECORD-BOOK).

Lida, David. Sepher Sod Hashem [Mohel’s compendium]

Eleven manuscript pages on paper tipped in at end recording the performance of 121 circumcisions by the Mohel David Dihnstfertig of the town of Ratibor. Signed by the Mohel in a neat square script on the title, dated Erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan, 1804. Written in a clear, cursive Ashkenazic hand. Circumscisions dated from 1804-16 ff. 31. Lightly browned. Contemporary calf, rubbed. 8vo

Vienna: Anton Schmid 1801

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

Most of these circumscisions were performed in the town of Ratibor (Raciborz), a town in the Opole province of Southern Poland on the Odra (Oder) river near Czechoslovakia. Other towns and villages mentioned are Kocher, Branitz, Shamrowitz, Ribnik and Trappau