Birchath Hamazon - Dos Benshen. [compendium of selected festive rites]. According to the custom of Germany and Poland

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: $1,500

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

author

(CEREMONIES)

printer

Solomon Proops

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1722

Description

Title with woodcut typographic border. With many woodcut illustrations and historiated initial letters. Hebrew, with Judeo-German 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 services, 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 of 1645

ff.71. Foxed, stained in places, neat marginal repair to title, lacking lower portion of f.49, previous owners signature on title. Later half-morocco marbled boards, rubbed, covers starting. 4to

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