Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sefer HaMinhagim – With Passover Haggadah – Amsterdam, 1775 – Many Woodcut Illustrations
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium
Sefer HaMinhagim, "following the order of creation – from the beginning of the year to the end of the year", with Passover Haggadah, containing many woodcut illustrations. Amsterdam: Gerard Johann Janson for Shlomo Levi Maduro, 1775.
Contains Havdalah, Kiddush for Shabbat and festivals, blessings after meals and Kiddush Levanah, Passover Haggadah and blessing for the first night of the Omer, blessing for the Shofar, order of annulling vows, Chanukah candle-lighting, blessings on the Megillah for Purim, order of circumcision, Zeved HaBat and Pidyon HaBen, wedding psalm and blessings, blessings over pleasures and bedtime reading of Shema.
The text is supplemented by 14 fine woodcut illustrations prepared for this edition, as stated on the title page: "And we added the entire Haggadah… with fine new illustrations…".
The text follows the Sephardic rite. Titles and laws printed mostly in Spanish (in Latin characters).
Handwritten notes (in Dutch) on several leaves (on one leaf, printed instructions deleted with ink, replaced by handwritten lines).
[1], 2-48 leaves. 15.5 cm. Fair condition. Many stains, including dark food and wine stains. Light wear. Small marginal tears to several leaves. Early binding, with leather spine, with slight defects.
Otzar HaHaggadot 273.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Passover Haggadot
Passover Haggadot 