Seder HaTephiloth [prayers for the entire year]. Translation into Judeo-German. * With: Seder Tehilim and Seder Techinoth [supplications].

Estimate: $7,000–$9,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(BINDING).

printer

Moses Mendes Coutinho

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1705

Description

Historiated engraved title page depicting traditional commandments of the Jewish woman, here shown in 18th-century Dutch-Jewish attire. Two divisional titles within typographic borders for Psalms and Techinoth. Headpieces and tailpieces. Bound in: Attractive contemporary hunter lacquered calf, two handsome engraved silver clasps with collinade-form hinges and four silver corner pieces all engraved with floral motifs. Gauffred edges.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 801.

summary

A “Weibertefille,” a Prayer-book intended especially for women. The striking original engraved title-page depicts the three duties of the Jewish Married Woman: the taking of Challah; kindling the Sabbath candles and observance of Family Purity (see Mishnah, Shabbath, Chap. II). Illustrated in M.H. Gans, Memorbook: History of Dutch Jewry (1971) p. 185, no. 7 and A.M. Habermann, Title. Pages of Hebrew Books (1969) pl. 83.

ff. (3), 315, (1), 92. Lightly browned and stained in places. 4to.

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