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

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

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 Aschkenazi rite. Edited and with Kabbalistic commentary Dikduk Tephilah by Naphtali Hertz Treves

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. Contains important manuscript glosses written in a Kabbalistic vein following the School of Eleazer of Worms and the Chachmei Aschkenaz

ff.234 (of 240). ff.1-4 and f.11supplied in a most attractive hand, ff.91-2 provided in facsimile, ff.5,11,13,62,66-8,70,86,90,93 with variable loss and completed in manuscript. Expert paper repairs, stained in places. Extensively annotated in more than one hand. Modern calf in slip-case. 4to

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