Birkath HaMazon - Dos Benschen. ff. 71. * Bound with: Minhagim. ff. 57. Edited by Shimon Levi Ginzburg.

Estimate: $4,000–$5,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(CEREMONIES).

printer

Solomon Proops

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1722 and 1728

Description

Two works bound in one volume. Both according to the custom and rites of Germany and Poland. Both with many wonderful woodcut illustrations and historiated initial letters. With Zodiac and agricultural woodcut illustrations for each month. Hebrew, with Judeo-German translation printed in wayber-taytsch type. With bookplate of M. Zagajski.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1180 and 1324.

summary

Two compendia that include Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, Birth, Marriage and Death services and a Passover Hagadah. The illuminating woodcuts illustrate selected holidays and observances through the annual religious cycle. The prototype of these images was Menasseh ben Israel’s Sepher Minhagim of 1645.

Deeply and evenly browned throughout, few short tears. Later vellum. 4to.

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