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

(CEREMONIES).

Solomon Proops

Amsterdam

1723

Title with woodcut typographic border. With many woodcut illustrations and historiated initial letters. Hebrew, with Judeo-German translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type.

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1203; Turniansky no. 39 (illustrated) in: Alei Sefer vol. X (1982); Yudlov Hagadah 145.

Compendium including Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, Birth, Marriage and Death services, concluding with a Hagadah for Passover. The illuminating woodcuts illustrate selected holidays and observances through the annual religious cycle. The prototype of these images appeared in Menasseh ben Israel’s Sepher Minhagim of 1645.