Selichoth Leta’anith...

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $650

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

author

(LITURGY)

printer

n.p., circa

Place

(Frankfurt a/Main)

Publication

1711

Description

Printed without a title-page. A re-issue from the larger Selichoth printed in Frankfurt a/Main the same year

references

Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 280; EJ, VI col.1193 (illustrated)

summary

Penitential prayers recited on the 24th Teveth, the communal fast-day, commemorating the fire that devastated most of the Jewish Quarter of Frankfurt a/Main. It was this catastrophe that motivated Johann Schudt to write his chronicle of Frankfurt Jewry. (See Lot ****)

ff.6. Modern boards. Sm.4to

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