Bidspirit auction | (CEREMONIES). Birchath Hamazon - Dos

(CEREMONIES). Birchath Hamazon - Dos Benshen [compendium of selected prayers and festive rites]. According to the custom of Poland and Germany. With Judeo-German translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type. Title within typographic border. Woodcut illustrations of domestic scenes on ff. 5, 16, 19, 20. Decorative capitals on most pages. ff. 47 (i.e. 48). Worn and stained. Later boards, rubbed. 4to. Vinograd, Frankfurt a/ Main 464. Frankfurt am Main, Shlomo Zalman Apterod and Moshe Gamburg, 1727. Grace after Meals alongside a collection of other prayers and blessings to be said on various occasions with translation into Yiddish. Contains a number of interesting texts that are no longer common, including the Parsha of ‘Vayishlach Ya’akov’ at the close of the Sabbath, by those who were making ready to set out on travels during the course of the coming week. Also includes 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.