Woman's Siddur – Year-Round Prayer According to the Polish Rite, Tehillim and Techinot – Amsterdam, 1819-1823 – ...

Woman's Siddur – Year-Round Prayer According to the Polish Rite, Tehillim and Techinot – Amsterdam, 1819-1823 – Original Leather Binding Decorated with Clasps, with Woman's Name Inscribed

Year-round prayer according to the Polish rite. Amsterdam: Yochanan Levi Rofe and his son Binyamin, 1819. Bound with: Book of Tehillim arranged according to the days of the week, with a Yiddish commentary and Techinot (supplications). Amsterdam: Yochanan Levi Rofe and his son Binyamin, 1822-1823.
Divisional title pages for Tehillim and Techinot.

Woman's Siddur in elegant leather binding, with gilt decorations and silver clasps – fully marked, with marks for Amsterdam (lion in a diamond), the year (P with a circle – 1849) and the maker (AL and 20 in a square – Lanzonder, Adrianus Hoolbos). Original colorful endpaper.
On the front binding is an inscription of the woman's name: "Nena wife of Avraham of Emden".

On the front endpaper are inscriptions of births in the woman's handwriting (inscriptions on three daughters born to her in 1851, 1854 and 1857; one inscription from 1851 deleted on the birth of a son who apparently later died).
The Siddur includes a handwritten leaf with a prayer for a birthing mother mentioning the woman's name: "Nena born to Chanah".

[1], 243; 64-135, [1]; 36 leaves. Tehillim and Techinot: 144 leaves. Missing 92 leaves from the second sequence in the Siddur. In their place are bound leaves 64-135, [1], evidently from another edition. 20.5 cm. Gilt edges. Most leaves in good-fair condition, about 30 of the last leaves in fair condition. Many stains, including dampstains and traces of former dampness, with mold stains to last tens of leaves. Wear. Tears in several places. Early leather binding, with clasps. Much wear and damage to binding, tears across the binding (remains of paper stuck to back side of binding).

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