Auction 35 · Lot 69

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

Estimate: $2,000–$2,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

(CEREMONIES)

printer

Shlomo Zalman Apterod & Moshe Gamburg

Place

Frankfurt a/Main

Publication

1727

Description

Title within typographic border. Title and many initial letters historiated. Woodcut illustrations. With Yiddish translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type

references

Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 465; Yudlov 159; Turniansky 41

summary

Compendium including Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, Birth, Marriage and Death rites, concluding with an Hagadah for Passover. The woodcuts illustrate selected holidays and observances through the annual religious cycle. The prototype of these images was Menasseh ben Israel’s celebrated Sepher Minhagim, Amsterdam 1645. The present Frankfurt “Minhagim-style” illustrations are slightly different from the Amsterdam style. Primitively wrought, they carry a rather striking angularity in their starkness

ff. 47. Usual browning and staining, lower right hand corner of one leaf repaired affecting first two letters of the word “shabaton.” Half calf, rubbed at edges. 4to

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