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Vellum Manuscript - Birkat HaLevanah - Written as a Bar-Mitzvah Gift - Frankfurt am Main, 1836
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Vellum Manuscript - Birkat HaLevanah - Written as a Bar-Mitzvah Gift - Frankfurt am Main, 1836
Vellum manuscript, Birkat HaLevanah, written by the scribe Eliezer Zusman Mezritch as a gift to the Bar-Mitzvah boy Wolfgang son of R. Itzak Speyer. Frankfurt am Main, 1836.
Pocket edition. Square, vowelized Ashkenazi script. Introduction and instructions in "Rashi" script. Details of the writer, the place and the year appear on the ornamented title page with a dedication to the Bar-Mitzvah boy in the center: "To the dear pleasant boy… Wolfgang Speyer, son of… Itzak Speyer, on his bar- mitzvah day, Shabbat Kodesh the 8th of Nissan 1836, his parents should merit bringing him to his chuppah, and he will follow in the footsteps of his forefathers keeping G-d's mitzvoth and His Torah, Amen".
Following the title page are the laws of Kiddush Levanah.
[4] leaves, 11 cm. Good condition. Stains. Contemporary binding, with damages.
