Machzor mikol HaShanah [festival prayers for the entire year]. According to Aschkenazi rite. With Kabbalistic commentaries.

AUCTION 79 | Thursday, November 15th, 2018 at 1:00 PM

The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Machzor mikol HaShanah [festival prayers for the entire year]. According to Aschkenazi rite. With Kabbalistic commentaries.

Complete in two parts, bound here in one volume. <<PART II PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER.>> Title within architectural arch. Printed in two columns. Censors signatures at end. Occasional marginal notations. In Days of Awe “Hamelech” and “Kol Nidrei” and two additional prayers all with type-ornament surround. Some passages censored. ff. 389 (of 394), ff. 1-3 and 7-8 provided in facsimile, outer corner of f. 13 provided in manuscript, all leaves of Part I (until f. 192) neatly laid to size. Part II with occasional stains and few neat repairs, penultimate leaf with loss of few words. Bound in Valmadonna-custom deep cherry blind-tooled calf, spine in compartments and titled in gilt. Thick 4to. Housed in fitted slip-case. Vinograd, Sabionetta 42 and Cremona 30.

Sabionetta - Cremona: Tobias Foa - Jacob Cohen of Gazolo 1557-60

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $6,000

<<RARE, BIBLIOPHILIC EDITION. SECOND PART PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER>> (ff. 193-394). See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Colored Paper no. 12. The publication of this important Aschkenazic Machzor has engendered much bibliographical discussion. Begun in Sabbioneta in 1557 in the house of Tobias Foa, it was completed in Cremona on the eve of the New Year [5]321 (1560) by Vicenzo Conti (as explained in the colophon at the end of the volume). From a typographical perspective, the Machzor is something of a mystery. Considering it was printed in two different cities, clearly the transition was hardly seamless. The great bibliographers, such as Steinschneider, Sonne, Berliner, Rivkind and Benayahu have tried to make sense of the way in which various letters occur in the edition. For a thorough study in this regard, see Benayahu, HaDephus Ha’Ivri BeCremona (1971) pp. 139-178.