Lida, David. Sepher Sod Hashem [Mohel’s compendium]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $1,000

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author

(CIRCUMCISION RECORD-BOOK).

printer

Anton Schmid

Place

Vienna

Publication

1801

Description

Eleven manuscript pages on paper tipped in at end recording the performance of 121 circumcisions by the Mohel David Dihnstfertig of the town of Ratibor. Signed by the Mohel in a neat square script on the title, dated Erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan, 1804. Written in a clear, cursive Ashkenazic hand. Circumscisions dated from 1804-16

references

Vinograd, Vienna 174

summary

Most of these circumscisions were performed in the town of Ratibor (Raciborz), a town in the Opole province of Southern Poland on the Odra (Oder) river near Czechoslovakia. Other towns and villages mentioned are Kocher, Branitz, Shamrowitz, Ribnik and Trappau

ff. 31. Lightly browned. Contemporary calf, rubbed. 8vo

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