Malah Ha’aretz De’ah [prayers through the year, with Ethics of the Fathers]

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $5,000

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

author

(LITURGY)

printer

Eliezer ben Hertz & Joseph ben Naphtali

Place

Thiengen

Publication

1560

Description

According to Aschenazi rite. Edited and with Kabbalistic commentary Dikduk Tephilah by Naphtali Hertz Treves. The Alexander Marx copy

references

Vinograd, Thiengen 4 (with erroneous pagination); Mehlman 205

summary

One of the earliest Aschkenazi Prayer-Books; includes a valuable Kabbalistic commentary. This is the fourth of only seven Hebrew books printed from 1560-67 in this tiny German town in the province of Baden- all are very scarce, indeed all are unknown to Adams. It would seem the Hebrew press was the only one to be active here throughout the 16th-century

ff. 229 (of 240), lacking f.36 (blank), ff. 1-9, and12 supplied in a 19th century hand. Initial text leaf remargined, few taped repairs, lightly stained in places, ff. 226-238 misbound. Recent cloth-backed marble boards, broken. Sm. 4to

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