Tephilah Nechonah [prayers for the entire year]. According to the custom of the German and Polish Jews. Arranged in accordance with the daily prayer book of Shabbetai Sofer ben Isaac of Przemysl.

Estimate

$500–$700

Hammer price

$650

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author

(LITURGY)

printer

F. Kiernan

Place

London

Publication

1822

Description

Hebrew with English translation. Published for the benefit of the Jews’ Free School.

references

Vinograd, London 249; Roth, London 126

summary

R. Shabbetai Sofer was commissioned by the Rabbis of the Council of Three Lands to publish an authorised and accurate edition of the Prayer-book, which he did with much reference to the now lost Siddur of R. Solomon Luria. It was first published in 1617 in Prague. As the foremost grammarian of his generation he was accorded glowing approbations from the greatest Rabbinic personages of the day. The manuscript of R. Shabbetai Sofer’s daily prayer book was sold by Christie’s, Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books from The Library of the London Beth Din, New York, 23rd June 1999, Lot 106.

pp. (15), ff. 112, 112*-239; (33). Lightly browned, stained in places, a.e.g. Later blind-tooled morocco, gently rubbed at extremites. 4to

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