Sepher Tehillim [Book of Psalms]. With Shimush Tehillim and meditations prior to each chapter; prayers for the sick and pregnant.

(BIBLE).

Jacob Proops

Amsterdam

1778

PRINTED ENTIRELY ON VELLUM. Exquisitely bound in contemporary green calf, with gilt-tooled floral, leafy and chain patterns, central figure of a winged angel, upper cover gilt-tooled with previous female owner: “Ella, the wife of R. Leib Redsh.”

Unrecorded by both Vinograd and Freimann, Die Hebraischen Pergament Drucke (ZfHB).

Book of PSALMS BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED ENTIRELY ON VELLUM. A UNICUM. Only one other copy of this Psalms is recorded (Mossad Harav Kook, Jerusalem), which is a paper copy only. According to NLI, this Psalms follows the Amsterdam, 1777 edition (Vinograd no. 2069) through f. 118 published however by Abraham Proops. Evidently, this Tehillim belonged to the wife of a wealthy man who in turn married into a prominent Rabbinical family. The opening blank is inscribed in Hebrew, citing “the Yahrtzeit of my sister Rivka Gelah, the widow of R. Eliyahu Tzvi, the Rabbi of Rotterdam.”