Birchath Hamazon - Dos Benshen. According to the custom of Poland and Germany

Estimate: $700–$1,000
Hammer price: $900

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(CEREMONIES).

printer

Solomon Proops

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1722

Description

Title within typographic border. Many historiated initial letters and woodcut illustrations. With Yiddish translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type. Annotated in a contemporary hand

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1180; Turniansky no. 39 (illustrated) in: Alei Sefer vol. X (1982) ; Yudlov 144

summary

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

ff. 71. Worn in places, taped with occasional loss, browned. Modern boards. 4to

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