Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
Tefillat Nehorah Siddur - Slavita, 1833 - Nusach Sefarad
Opening: $10,000
Sold for: $12,500
Including buyer's premium
Tefillat Nehorah, siddur "nusach Sefarad" (Sefarad tradition). Two parts. Slavita: R. Shmuel Avraham Shapira son of the Slavita rabbi, 1833.
Siddur with many additions. Edited by R. Aharon son of R. Yechiel Michel HaLevi of Mikhalishki. Prayers and pleas, kabbalistic and simple kavanot, commentaries, laws and practices, mussar and words of inspiration, Tikkunei Shabbat, Haggadah and Yotzrot, etc.
Approbations of rabbis of Ostroh and Sudilkov. Part of the title page of Part 1 was printed in red ink. Separate title page for Part 2.
Signatures of "Yitzchak Zvi son of R. Avraham of Leżajsk (Lizhensk)" [R. Hershel Shemesh of Safed].
Part 1: [2], 5-31, [33]-125, 139-178, 157-164, 187-190 leaves. Lacking 14 middle leaves (leaves 32, 126-138). Part 2: [1], 189-192, 5-125 leaves. Another leaf is bound between leaf 64 and leaf 65, containing a section of the Zohar which is customarily recited before teki'ot (not recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book). 18 cm. Condition varies among the leaves, fair-good. Stains and wear. Repaired title page, lacking upper part, replaced with photocopy. Repaired tears and worming to many leaves, damages to text (the book was professionally repaired). Elegant new leather binding.
Siddur with many additions. Edited by R. Aharon son of R. Yechiel Michel HaLevi of Mikhalishki. Prayers and pleas, kabbalistic and simple kavanot, commentaries, laws and practices, mussar and words of inspiration, Tikkunei Shabbat, Haggadah and Yotzrot, etc.
Approbations of rabbis of Ostroh and Sudilkov. Part of the title page of Part 1 was printed in red ink. Separate title page for Part 2.
Signatures of "Yitzchak Zvi son of R. Avraham of Leżajsk (Lizhensk)" [R. Hershel Shemesh of Safed].
Part 1: [2], 5-31, [33]-125, 139-178, 157-164, 187-190 leaves. Lacking 14 middle leaves (leaves 32, 126-138). Part 2: [1], 189-192, 5-125 leaves. Another leaf is bound between leaf 64 and leaf 65, containing a section of the Zohar which is customarily recited before teki'ot (not recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book). 18 cm. Condition varies among the leaves, fair-good. Stains and wear. Repaired title page, lacking upper part, replaced with photocopy. Repaired tears and worming to many leaves, damages to text (the book was professionally repaired). Elegant new leather binding.