Selichoth [penitential prayers].

Auction 94 | Thursday, June 17th, 2021 at 11:00am

Rare & Excellent Hebrew Printed Books: From the Library of Arthur A. Marx

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Selichoth [penitential prayers].

According to Aschkenazi rite. Printed without a title page. Initial text page enclosed within elaborate historiated woodcut border. Censored in places with text often re-inserted in manuscript. <<Manuscript>> table of contents in rear written in a contemporary scribal hand in red and black. Several early signatures. Marginalia throughout. ff. (121). Short tears and few neat paper repairs, some wear from use, few stains. Modern crushed morocco, gilt extra, in custom slipcase. Folio. Vinograd, Augsburg 9; M.N. Rosenfeld, Augsburg 45.

Augsburg: Chaim Schwartz (Shachor) 1536

Est: $30,000 - $50,000

PRICE REALIZED $30,000

<<The first Selichoth printed in Germany. A highly scarce volume.>> Relying on the Italian Selichoth issued by Gershom Soncino (Fano, 1506), this edition includes for the first time additional material for a specific Aschkenaz readership, as well as texts corrected from previous censorship.