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

Auction 38 · Lot 81

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

Estimate
$1,500–$2,000
Hammer price
$1,500

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 Judeo-German translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type

references

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

summary

Compendium including Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, Birth, Marriage and Death services, concluding with an Hagadah for Passover. These Frankfurt “Minhagim-style” illustrations are notably different from the Amsterdam mould. Primitively wrought, they carry a rather striking angularity in their starkness
ff. 48. Browned with some staining in places, slight worming professionally repaired affecting some words. Later vellum. 4to
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