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

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $650

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 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 mold. Primitively wrought, they carry a rather striking angularity in their starkness.

ff. 47(i.e. 48). Variously worn, stained and repaired, lower half of title supplied in facsimile, juvenile blue ink enhancement to candle lighting illustration on f. 20. Modern morocco backed marbled boards. 4to.

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