Sepher MaHaRI”L [Jewish laws and customs for the entire year according to Aschkenazi rite].

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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Lot 102

MOELLIN, JACOB BEN MOSES HALEVI.

Sepher MaHaRI”L [Jewish laws and customs for the entire year according to Aschkenazi rite].

Second edition. Inscriptions on title-page and signed by censors at end. Leaves 105-7 with extensive marginalia concerning Shechitah, and elsewhere. ff. 120. Stained in places. Bound in Valmadonna-custom crushed morocco, spine in compartments and titled in gilt. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Cremona 23.

Cremona: Vicenzo Conti 1558

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,200

The most important source of Aschkenazi ritual custom (Minhag), both within and outside synagogue life. The work paints a most faithful picture of the religious and social worlds of German Jewry of the 14th-15th centuries.