Manuscript/Mixed Material Order of Prayers before Retiring at Night

Title

• Order of Prayers before Retiring at Night

Created / Published

• 1745.

Headings

• -  Manuscripts, Hebrew--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

• -  Executed in: Mainz.
• -  Miniature prayerbook with additional blessings, illuminated by Joseph ben Meir Schmalkalden in silver, gold, and various colors in gouache. Handwritten title page bearing a rhymed inscription by one Joseph Deirne Katz, the man who commissioned the manuscript or more likely purchased it ready-made. Dierne writes that the book is for his wife, who is the "mainstay of his house" but does not give her name. The scribe signed his name in minuscule letters on the leaf illustrating the blessing "He who remembers His covenant," in a book held by a woman standing underneath a rainbow.
• -  Hebrew in square characters; Yiddish instructions in vayber-taytsch letters.
• -  Description based on finding aid
• -  Hebraic scanned
• -  [סדר קריאת שמע על המיטה] Order of Prayers before Retiring at Night. 24 ff. Vellum. 5.2 x 7 cm. Mainz, 1745. Hebrew in square characters; Yiddish instructions in vayber-taytsch letters. Inscription on title-page in different hand.

Medium

• 24 ff. Vellum ; 5.2 x 7 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• LC Hebr. Ms 229

Repository

• Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/amedscd.2018757847

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2018757847

Online Format

• pdf
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2018757847

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