Bidspirit auction | (BINDING). Seder HaTephiloth [prayers for

(BINDING). Seder HaTephiloth [prayers for the entire year]. Translation into Judeo-German. * With: Seder Tehilim and Seder Techinoth [supplications]. Historiated engraved title page depicting traditional commandments of the Jewish woman, here shown in 18th-century Dutch-Jewish attire. Two divisional titles within typographic borders for Psalms and Techinoth. Headpieces and tailpieces. Bound in: Attractive contemporary hunter lacquered calf, two handsome engraved silver clasps with collinade-form hinges and four silver corner pieces all engraved with floral motifs. Gauffred edges. ff. (3), 315, (1), 92. Lightly browned and stained in places. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 801. Amsterdam Moses Mendes Coutinho 1705. A “Weibertefille, ” a Prayer-book intended especially for women. The striking original engraved title-page depicts the three duties of the Jewish Married Woman: the taking of Challah; kindling the Sabbath candles and observance of Family Purity (see Mishnah, Shabbath, Chap. II). Illustrated in M.H. Gans, Memorbook: History of Dutch Jewry (1971) p. 185, no. 7; and A.M. Habermann, Title Pages of Hebrew Books (1969) pl. 83.