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

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,000

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

author

(CEREMONIES)

printer

Solomon Proops

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1723

Description

Title with woodcut typographic border. With many woodcut illustrations and historiated initial letters. Hebrew, with Yiddish translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type

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. Browned, several leaves remargined. Modern morocco-backed boards. 4to

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