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Lot #    16059
Auction End Date    10/24/2006 12:07:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Lobgesang und Gebeth ... Kaiserin Maria Ludovica
Title (Hebrew)    שיר ותפלה ... מריא לודויקה
Author    [Community - Only Ed. - Unrecorded] Judah Leib
City    Vienna
Publisher    Anton Schmid
Publication Date    1808
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Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   Only edition. [10] ff., folio, 300:210 mm., extra wide margins, printed on thick fine paper, light age staining, gild edges, printed purple end-sheets. A near fine copy bound in the original purple silk over boards, rubbed. Rare - no copy in major collections.
          
Paragraph 1    Perhaps the most beautiful book ever printed in Vienna.
          
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   German title: Lobgesang und Gebeth: als ihre Majestät die Kaiserin Maria Ludovica die hungarische Krone angenommen; von der israelitischen Nation in Hungarn mit grosser Feyerlichkeit in der Synagogue zu Pressburg gebethet ... am 7. September, 1806 : aus dem Hebräischen Feyerlichkeit in der synagogue zu Pressburg gebethet ... am 7. September, 1806 ...

Special prayer in honor of the coronation of Archduchess Maria Ludowika of Austria-Este (1787-1816) by Judah Leib ben Ze'ev. Includes: prayer in poetic form in 16 stanzas (Hebrew and German) (f. 2-7); ha-Noten Teshua prayer for Francis I (f. 8; and unknown, perhaps original prayer for Empress Maria Ludovica (f. 8-9). Hebrew text and German translation on facing pages.

          
Paragraph 2    שיר ותפלה על יום עטרת גברת הממלכות מריא לודויקה בעטרה שעטרו לה נסיכי ארץ הוגרי וסגניה לתת כתר מלכות בראשה ...קהלת עדת ישרון ... בעיר הממלכה פרעשבורג ... חברו יהודה ליב בן זאב.
          
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Austria
  
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Language:    Hebrew, German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica