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SILVER BINDING -- PRAYER BOOK, in Hebrew and Yiddish. Amsterdam: Shlomo Proops, 1714.
2 parts in one volume, 8° (168 x 105mm). Text in Hebrew and Yiddish. Two engraved titles. (Lacking a printed title, repairs to some leaves at beginning and end.) GERMAN SILVER-GILT BINDING, FROM THE SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY, (unmarked), 18th-century flowered endpapers. Provenance: "Shirley, wife of Moses received on her wedding day" (and inscription in Hebrew); Major J.R. Abbey (armorial booklabel, collection number 1597).
The covers with a central rectangular panel, filled with cast and pierced repeating scrollwork against a gilt foil ground, and four surrounding panels engraved with C-scrolls and husks. The lines joining the angles of the central panel to the corners of the cover are raised in a wrigglework pattern. The spine in six panels matching the central panels on the covers, against a gilt foil ground. The two clasps are cast and pierced in a similar style.
The design of this binding corresponds with those formerly preserved in the Königsberg University Library. These have been attributed to a group of German goldsmiths working in Nuremberg and Königsberg and were originally made for Duke Albrecht of Brandenburg (1525-1568) and his wife, the Duchess Anna Maria, in the third quarter of the 16th century (cf. P.Schwenke and K.Lange Die Silberbibliothek Herzog Albrechts von Preussen und seiner Gemahlin Anna Maria. Leipzig, 1894). The Königsberg books were lost during the last war.
2 parts in one volume, 8° (168 x 105mm). Text in Hebrew and Yiddish. Two engraved titles. (Lacking a printed title, repairs to some leaves at beginning and end.) GERMAN SILVER-GILT BINDING, FROM THE SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY, (unmarked), 18th-century flowered endpapers. Provenance: "Shirley, wife of Moses received on her wedding day" (and inscription in Hebrew); Major J.R. Abbey (armorial booklabel, collection number 1597).
The covers with a central rectangular panel, filled with cast and pierced repeating scrollwork against a gilt foil ground, and four surrounding panels engraved with C-scrolls and husks. The lines joining the angles of the central panel to the corners of the cover are raised in a wrigglework pattern. The spine in six panels matching the central panels on the covers, against a gilt foil ground. The two clasps are cast and pierced in a similar style.
The design of this binding corresponds with those formerly preserved in the Königsberg University Library. These have been attributed to a group of German goldsmiths working in Nuremberg and Königsberg and were originally made for Duke Albrecht of Brandenburg (1525-1568) and his wife, the Duchess Anna Maria, in the third quarter of the 16th century (cf. P.Schwenke and K.Lange Die Silberbibliothek Herzog Albrechts von Preussen und seiner Gemahlin Anna Maria. Leipzig, 1894). The Königsberg books were lost during the last war.