Auction 42 · Lot 89
(CEREMONIES)
- Estimate
- $3,000–$4,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
printer
de Cordova
Place
Amsterdam
Publication
1723
Description
Birkath ha-Mazon - Dos Benschen. ff. 71. Text in Hebrew, with Yiddish translation printed in waybertaytsch letters. [Vinograd, Amsterdam 1203; Turniansky 40 in: Alei Sefer, Vol. X (1982); Yudlov, Hagadah 145].
* Bound with: Minhagim. ff. 61. Judeo-German printed in waybertaytsch letters. ff. 55-6 loose. [Vinograd, Amsterdam 1210]
summary
Compendium including Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, Birth, Marriage and Death, concluding with the Hagadah for Passover. The illuminating woodcuts illustrate select holidays and observances through the annual religious cycle. The prototype of these images was Menasseh ben Israel’s Sepher Minhagim, Amsterdam, 1645
Browned. Contemporary vellum, buckled. 4to
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