Siddur of Rabbi Zalman Hanau with Shaarei Tefilla – Dyhernfurth, 1794 – Copy of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Rabbi of Berlin ...

Siddur of Rabbi Zalman Hanau with Shaarei Tefilla – Dyhernfurth, 1794 – Copy of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Rabbi of Berlin, with his Handwritten Additions
Siddur Beit VeShaarei Tefilla, with commentaries and textual corrections by R. Shlomo Zalman Katz Hanau; with Shaarei Tefillah (separate title page), regarding the correct pronunciation of prayers, by R. Shlomo Zalman Katz Hanau. Dyhernfurth: R. Yechiel Michel May, 1794.
Stamps of the library of the "Beit Midrash of the Ashkenazi community in London – Jews' College London" on the title page. At the end of the Shacharit prayers (p. 43b), various additions were inscribed in early Ashkenazic script, including Psalm 83 (recited in Ashkenazi communities every day at the conclusion of Shacharit). These additions were presumably handwritten by R. Tzvi Hirsch Rabbi of Berlin.
R. Tzvi Hirsch Levin Rabbi of Berlin (1721-1800, Otzar HaRabbanim 17206), a leading Torah scholar of his generation. A grandson of Chacham Tzvi, he was the son of R. Aryeh Leib Rabbi of Głogów and Amsterdam and brother of R. Shaul Lowenstam Rabbi of Amsterdam. He served as rabbi in Głogów, London, Halberstadt and Mannheim. In 1772, he was appointed rabbi of the capital city of Berlin, a position he held for 27 years.
His son, R. Shlomo Hirschell-Berlin (1761-1843), rabbi of Prenzlau and London. In 1802, he succeeded his father as rabbi of the Ashkenazi community in London and Great Britain, until his passing in 1842. All his descendants married into families of distinguished lineage, and went to live in Poland following his directives not to reside in England, for a reason he did not disclose (Kelilat Yofi, pp. 134-135).
R. Shlomo Hirschell's extensive library was sold after his passing to the library of the Ashkenazi community in London, including several books containing glosses and additions from his father, R. Tzvi Hirsch Berlin. Based on these glosses, the surviving Torah novellae of R. Tzvi Hirsch were published in the book Tzava Rav. The latter would sign many of his glosses and letters with the acronym Tzava (Tzvi Ben Aryeh; similar to his grandfather who would sign Tzvi – acronym of Tzvi ben Yaakov), and his book was named Tzava Rav based on this acronym.
Incomplete copy (lacking end of Shaarei Tefilla): [11], 2-[120] leaves (mispagination); 24 leaves (originally: 29 leaves – lacking last 5 leaves). 18.5 cm. Overall good condition. Stains and wear. Title page and two subsequent leaves in fair condition: Marginal tears, repaired with paper. Old binding with worn leather spine.