Machzor. According to Roman rite. With Kimcha De’Avishona by Yochanan Treves and commentaries by Ovadiah Sforno and Moses Maimonides.

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Machzor. According to Roman rite. With Kimcha De’Avishona by Yochanan Treves and commentaries by Ovadiah Sforno and Moses Maimonides.

Two volumes (mixed set). Titles within elaborate frames, many initial letters within cartouches. Marginal notes. Opening titles laid down, variously stained in places, paper repairs. Uniform modern full vellum. Folio (one vol. shorter). Vinograd, Bologna 16.

Bologna: Menachem ben Abraham of Modena & Partners 1540

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,500

Prayers for the entire year, including Passover Hagadah, Ethics of the Fathers; along with the Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Jonah and Ecclesiastes and various laws relating to birth, family purity, marriage, burial, etc. Includes the first appearance of Treves’s commentary elucidating the subject matter of the prayers and the meaning and derivation of phrases. For a thorough, scholarly discussion of this Roman rite, see Samuel David Luzzatto, Mavo LeMachzor Bnei Roma, with notes and additional material by Daniel Goldschmidt and a bibliography by Y.Y. Cohen (Tel-Aviv, 1966).