Seder Tephiloth KeMinhag Ashkenaz VePolin. Edited by David b. Menachem HaKohen. ff. 10. Hanau, 1628. * Bound with: Eleazer Ben Judah of Worms. Sepher Haroke’ach [ethics, rabbinic law and custom]. ff. 113. Hanau, 1630.

(LITURGY).

Hans Jakob Henah

Hanau

v.d

Printed in two columns without nekudoth. Two works bound in one volume. Each with historiated title-page featuring a nude Venus.

Vinograd, Hanau 50 and 58.

Only one other copy recorded of these Hanua prayers, found in the Bodleian Library (see Steinschneider no. 2130). According to the poetic title page, the publisher previously issued a pocket Shulchan Aruch (Hanau, 1627) for travelers to study from. He now performs another service for travelers so that they have an easily portable pocket prayer-book as well. Indeed the first prayer printed after the morning Berachoth is Tephilath HaDerech (the wayfarers prayer). It was apparently published without nekudoth in order to save space.