Birchath HaMazon - Dos Benshen. <<* Bound With:>> Minhagim. Two works in one volume [compendia of selected festive rites]. According to the custom of Germany and Poland.

AUCTION 62 | Thursday, June 26th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Birchath HaMazon - Dos Benshen. <<* Bound With:>> Minhagim. Two works in one volume [compendia of selected festive rites]. According to the custom of Germany and Poland.

Titles with woodcut typographic borders. Each volume with many woodcut illustrations and historiated initial letters. Hebrew and Judeo-German printed in Wayber-taytsch type. ff. 44 and ff. 44 (of?, lacking final few leaves). Browned and dampstained, final few leaves worn around edges with small loss. Contemporary marbled boards, inner hinge split. 4to. Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main, 365 and Yudlov, Hagadah 141 (this copy with two additional leaves); Second work not in Vinograd.

Frankfurt a/Main: Mechel b. Zalman of Hanau 1720 and 1717

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $3,600

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.