Ashkenazi prayerbook

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    Amsterdam
    master: ITK (Johann Thomas Kolb), around 1731
    book: 1713; frame: Kromeriz mark (until 1769)
    Silver, paper, paperboard, embossing, engraving
    17,3 x 12 x 5 cm

    A prayer-book of the Ashkenazy Jews (not Sephardic). The title page on f. 45 bis reads as follows: Seder Tehilim (Order of the Psalms). The title page on f. 121 reads as follows: Seder Tehinot (Order of Prayers for Mercy). The text of the prayers written in Hebraic with comments in Yiddish.

    Donated to the Museum by Dr Adolf Holzer from Samobor.

    F. Moacanin, Judaica, (catalogue of the MUO), Zagreb, 1984, catalogue number 151;

    M. Schneider, Predmeti zidovskog verskog karaktera u Povijesnom muzeju Hrvatske, Jevrejski almanah, 1957/58, pages 89-91.


    HPM/PMH-030936


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