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

AUCTION 55 | Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & 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 typographic border. With many woodcut illustrations and historiated initial letters. Hebrew, with Judeo-German translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type. ff. 71. Browned and stained. Modern boards. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1203; Turniansky no. 39 (illustrated) in: Alei Sefer vol. X (1982); Yudlov Hagadah 145.

Amsterdam: Solomon Proops 1723

Est: $1,800 - $2,200

PRICE REALIZED $1,900

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