Sod Hashem im Sharvit Hazahav ve’im Sepher Berith Hashem [Meditations and prayers relating to the circumcision ceremony]

DAVID BEN ARYEH LEIB OF LIDA.

German(?)

c.1820

Writtten and illustrated by Joseph Samuel Schwarz. ff.19, black ink on vellum, square Aschkenazi script, commentary in Rabbinic cursive script, title within ornamental frame. Seven pen-and-ink illustrations: f.2r, Sacrifice of Isaac; f.2v, Song of Moses within border of musical instruments; f.9r, Gentleman dressed for Morning Prayers carrying infant toward elaborate Biedermeir-style Chair of Elijah; f.11v, Mohel with infant, assistants to left bearing goblet of wine and braided candle, to right, synagogue congregants dressed in prayer-garb seated at pews; f.15r, Celebratory Feast, participants wearing top-hats, officiating Rabbi seated at one end dressed in canonicals; f.16r, High Priest kindling Temple Menorah, Haman and his ten sons swinging from their gallows (representing the respective prayers for Chanukah and Purim within Grace after Meals; f.17r, Gates of Jerusalem