Obj. ID: 35906  Binyan Shlomo, Offenbach, 1784

This text was prepared by William Gross:

First edition of this commentary on Masekhet Sanhedrin by R. Nathan b. Solomon Maz (c.1720-94).
The title page describes R. Maz as Rosh Metivta and Rosh Dayyan in Frankfurt a. M. It was his intent to build the house of Solomon (Beit Shlomo) and to explain well every difficult place in Tosafot on Rashi. There is an introduction from R. Maz followed by approbations and a brief word from the printer. The text is in two columns in rabbinic type.
Printers mark of Avraham b. Shlomo Proops on title page: a two-part cartouche with the blessing hands of the Cohanim on the right, and a tree on the left.
The Proops printing house was established in Amsterdam in 1704 by Solomon b. Joseph (d. 1734), whose father may have been a Hebrew printer as well. At his death, appointed guardians continued to operate the Solomon's press, and even when his sons Joseph, Jacob and Abraham took over, they traded under the old name until 1751. Begining in 1752 and 1765 the sons printed under their own name. Abraham Proops had been active on his own in in Amsterdam 1776–79, before moving his business to Offenbach, where he printed (with his son) until his death in 1792.
His son returned to Amsterdam at his father's death.