Seder Pidyon ha-Ben
Contributors: Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University. Libraries)
Published: 1806
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: heb
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Judaism; Prayers and devotions; Texts; 19th century; Liturgy; Jews; History
Notes: Manuscript in Hebrew

Ink on paper.

Modern foliation in pencil in Arabic numerals.

Written in elegant 19th century Ashkenazic square (liturgical text), Rashi (Hebrew rubrics) and vayhertaytsh (Yiddish rubrics) scripts in black ink; scribe: Samuel ben Abraham Cohen Sofer.

Contemporary gilt-tooled calf binding; spine in 5 compartments with raised bands; headband and tailband exposed; edges gilt; contemporary paper flyleaves and pastedowns.

Pocket-sized Pidyon ha-ben (Order of the redemption of the firstborn son of a Jewish woman on non-priestly or Levitical lineage); liturgy and registry; includes the texts of the blessings recited by the father and the kohen, the text of th birkat ha-mazon (grace after meals) said after the festive meal, etc. ; a list of names appended at the rear of the volume gives the Hebrew and Gregorian dates, from 1831 to 1885, on which 15 firstborns were redeemed.