• Ms. 374




    Categories

    Liturgy
    Manuscript

    Seder (Siddur)


    Manuscript ID:
    Ms. 374

    Place:
    Zehdenick, Germany

    Date:
    1794

    Description:
    ink on paper; 105 leaves (16.5 x 10 cm); Ashkenazi square and Rabbinic Hebrew characters

    Copyist:
    Moses ben Mordecai Jaffe

    Former Owner:
    Eduard Birnbaum

    Subject:
    Liturgy


    An Ashkenazi Siddur copied by Moses ben Mordecai Jaffe, the latter having been the rabbi of Zelve in the 18th century. The inside front cover has a brief family register recording the birth of an owner’s first great-grandson in 1821, whose mother was Khave bat R. Yosef Ṭurḳele of Zelve.


    Manuscript Link:
    https://huc.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1294477017


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