• Ms. 600




    Categories

    Liturgy
    Manuscript

    Mohel Book


    Manuscript ID:
    MS 600

    Place:
    (a) Hildesheim, Germany; (b) Germany (?)

    Date:
    (a) 1775; (b) 1774-96

    Description:
    ink and pigment on parchment, 19 leaves; (b) ink on paper, 4 pages (16.5 x 9.8 cm.)

    Copyist:
    (a) Wolf Leib Katz Poppers; (b) unknown

    Subject:
    Liturgy


    The first text is a handsomely executed handbook on circumcision, entitled Sefer Sod Adonai. It contains an ornamental title page as well as a number of detailed miniatures, both color and black-and-white. On the blank verso of the final parchment leaf and continuing on the paper bound in are entries for an anonymous mohel from 1774-96.


    Manuscript Link:
    https://huc.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1013887629


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