Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Zot Chanukat HaBayit – Inauguration of Ashkenazic Synagogue in Amsterdam – Amsterdam, 1766
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Printed booklet, Zot Chanukat HaBayit, order of inauguration of the Ashkenazic synagogue on Uilenburg street in Amsterdam, Friday, 24th Elul 1766. Amsterdam: Yosef, Yaakov and Avraham sons of Shlomo Proops Katz, [1766].
Illustrated title frame, with angels playing trumpets. At top of title header, Star of David with emblem of the Ashkenazic community of Amsterdam.
Includes Tehillim, poems and prayer established by the head of the community, R. Shaul Lowenstam of Amsterdam. List of community officials at bottom of title page.
[4] leaves. 24.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dark stains. Creases and folding marks. Tears, repaired with tape (many repairs to margins and in some places to middle of leaves, over text). Light worming. New binding.
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