Klausen Book of Psalms

Shabbetai Sheftel Auerbach

1706

Page with Hebrew text of illustrations of men in turbans on either side of the text; cherub, vines, and birds at top of page; and six men in prayer shawls walking to building at bottom of page.
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Shabbetai Sheftel Auerbach

d. 1738

Shabbetai Sheftel ben Zalman Auerbach was a scribe active in Prague in the early eighteenth century. He was descended from a family expelled from Vienna in 1669/70, and his father served as a dayan (rabbinic judge) in Nikolsburg in Moravia (present day Mikulov, Czech Republic).

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