Seder Ha’tephiloth Mikol Ha’shanah [prayers for the entire year]. According to the custom of Polish Jews. With Psalms and Techinoth. Divisional titles

(BINDING).

Jochanan Levi Rophé

Amsterdam

1786

Contemporary vellum binding, elaborately gilt-tooled and hand-colored in green, red and black inks within an arch form and central obelisk, embellished with birds, flowers, tooled scrolls and flourishes on upper and lower covers

Vinograd, Amsterdam 2156

a beautiful Dutch, hand-colored vellum hebrew binding A quite unusual and uncommon work of craftsmanship. The central motif on the covers of a pair of cherubs supporting a crown indicate the owner was one of the Elders of Amsterdam’s Portuguese Congregation. See M. Gans, Memorbook p.189 for other examples of fine Dutch-Jewish bindings ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR FUTURE USE: See Chaya Benjamin, The Stieglitz Collection [The Israel Museum, Jerusalem] (1987), p. 286, no. 196 (includes facsimile of binding), for a practically identical binding. Item is Passover Hagadah (Hamburg, 1762)