Beith Tephilah [prayers for the Days of Awe]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $800

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

author

(LITURGY)

printer

n.p.

Place

Salonika

Publication

1804

Description

According to the rite of Aragon. The Mayer Sulzberger copy (Halberstamm Collection). Annotated by Halberstamm on front free-endpaper

references

Vinograd, Salonika 532; Mehlman 350

summary

Spain, the home of Hebrew poetry, produced so many composers of Piyutim that almost every Spanish city had its own ritual. After the Spanish Exile however, a uniform ritual was adopted by all (Spanish) Sephardim with the exception of the Catalonian and Aragonian congregations of Salonika, who preserved their unique liturgical rituals for centuries

ff. 184. Minimally stained. Contemporary mottled calf with owner’s (Isaac Moses Athias S.T.) morocco label tolled in gilt on upper cover, rubbed. 4to

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