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Bidding Information
Lot #    17824
Auction End Date    4/24/2007 11:43:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Miniature Siddur
Title (Hebrew)    תפלה קטנה
Author    [Liturgy - Miniature]
City    Djerba
Publisher    Aydan
Publication Date    [1946]?
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    176 ff., sextodecimo, 75:44 mm., clean margins. A very good copy bound as issued.
          
Detailed
Description		    Miniature prayer-book printed on the island of Djerba. The prayers are for Minhah, Ma’ariv. For weekdays and for Shabbat in a small pocket format. The prayers for those occasions are comprehensive, inlkcuding Bameh Madlikin for Friday night, prayers that it is customary to say Friday night between Purim and Pesah, and Birkhat ha-Mozen. Despite its small size the letters are relatively large and easily readable.

Djerba (Jerba), island off the coast of Tunisia. In ancient times it was an important Phoenician trading center. According to the local tradition, the Jewish settlement there is very old. It maintains that the Jews came there during the reign of Solomon and founded the present al-Hara al-Kab

          
Paragraph 2    סדר מנחה וערבית, חול ושבת, תבנית קטן של כיס.

כמנהג הספרדים. עם מנחה וערבית לשלוש רגלים; ברכת המזון; סדר ברכות; ספירת העומר; קדיש דרבנן.

          
Reference
Description		    EJ; CD-EPI 0309898
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    North Africa
  
Subject
Liturgy:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Miniatures:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica