Auction 91
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Arts Featuring an Extensive Collection of Rabbinic Autograph Letters.
Nov 12, 2020
USA
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205
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LOT 10:
(MOHEL-BOOK).
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Start price:
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2,500
Estimated price:
$3,000 - $5,000
Auction house commission: 25%
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(MOHEL-BOOK).
David Lida. Sepher Sod Hashem [Mohel’s compendium with prayers]. With commentary Sharvit HaZahav.
With 296-page Manuscript supplement, recording 1,818 circumcisions performed by the noted Mohel R. Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins. Hebrew, with occasional use of German and Dutch.
ff. 36 (printed). Some foxing. Original roan, rubbed. 8vo.
Vienna: Anton Schmid 1837
Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins’s Pinkas Mohel circumcision-registry. A record of 1,818 circumcisions performed by Rabbi Prins between 1855 and 1889. Each listing, consisting of name, date, and place, is meticulously recorded in his neat hand. Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins (1835-1915) was an Amsterdam businessman, bibliophile and scholar, as well as an active mohel. In 1887 he retired and moved to Frankfurt, where he devoted himself to scholarship full time. He corresponded with many of the great Jewish scholars of the day, and published valuable scholarly works on Talmud and the liturgy. See M. Herskovics & E. Bendheim (Eds.) Eliezer Liepman Prins, Parnas L’Doro: His Scholarly Correspondence (1992 and 1996).
