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Auction 13 · Lot 314

Tephilah [daily prayers for the entire year]. According to the custom of Poland and Moravia.

Estimate
$500–$700
Hammer price
Not recorded

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

author

(LITURGY)

printer

Hirsch b. Chaim of Fuerth

Place

Wilhermsdorf

Publication

1720

Description

Three parts in one volume.

references

cf. Vinograd, Wilhermsdorf 115; cf. M. N. Rosenfeld, Jewish Printing in Wilhermsdorf (1995), no. 96

summary

AN UNRECORDED PRAYER-BOOK. Includes Perek Shira; prayers by R. Shabtai Sheftel (son of R. Issiah Horowitz, The SHeLa”H Hakodosh); seventy two verses by Nachmanides; prayers for the sick according to the custom of the Shomrim La’boker Society of the Aschkenazi Community of Venice and a Hagadah for Passover.
ff. 181 (of 182, lacking f. 83);130;100 (of 103 present), lacking ff. 75-6, and 79, ff.103-43 (?) lacking at end. Stained and thumbed, worn in places, title filled to size, some leaves remargined affecting text in places. Modern half-morocco marbled boards. 4to
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