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Seder Tephiloth [Hebrew prayers for weekday, Sabbath and select personal and festive events through the year].
According to the Aschkenazi rite. * And: Book of Psalms and Techinos supplicatory liturgies for women]. All with translation and commentary in Judeo-German and printed in waybertaytsch type. Striking engraved title page with eight Biblical vignettes all relating to women. Additional title-page prior to Techinos (f. 121). Binding by Benjamin Raguin, c. 1730: Full calf with applied silver corner-pieces and extended twin silver clasps and hinges, marked “BR.” * Accompanied by: Two silver shields engraved in in Hebrew with male and female names: “Edel, the daughter of Leib and Aaron, the son of Aaron.”
ff. (1), 279, 176. Lightly stained and worn from use, title laid down with small loss to right margin, lacking f. 68, with f. 69 supplied in facsimile, new endpapers. Thick 8vo. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1381.
Amsterdam: Shlomo Proops 1730
<< Provenance:>> Stadhuis Museum, Zierikzee (Netherlands).===See Museum Catalogue by Bernard van Noordwijk, Zilver van Kaft tot Kaft (2017) no. 20 pp. 54-5 (catalogue accompanies the lot).===This prayer-book is known as a “Weibertefille” - a Siddur intended especially for women, customarily presented by a groom to his bride on their wedding-day.