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

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: $4,250

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author

(CEREMONIES)

printer

Isaac di Cordova

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1723

Description

Title with woodcut typographic border. With many woodcut illustrations of Jewish ceremonial life as well as historiated initial letters. Hebrew, with Judeo-German translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1203; Turniansky no. 40 in: Alei Sefer vol. X (1982); Mehlman 145

summary

Compendium including Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, Birth, Marriage and Death rituals and concluding with a Hagadah for Passover

ff. 71. Some staining, neat marginal repairs to few leaves inserted from another copy. Recent vellum. 4to

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