Seder Le’Arba Zomoth Ul’Arba Parshiyoth KeMinhag Carpentras (The Carpentras Rite for Four Fasts and Four Special Readings).

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Seder Le’Arba Zomoth Ul’Arba Parshiyoth KeMinhag Carpentras (The Carpentras Rite for Four Fasts and Four Special Readings).

<<First Edition.>> On p. 4, coat-of-arms showing a lion with a tower, which was originally the printer’s mark of Immanuel Benveniste during the years 1641-1659. (See Ya’ari, Hebrew Printers’ Marks, no. 60; Fuks, pp.146-147). Cornucopia and floral arrangements as page breaks. Owner’s Hebrew inscription opposite p. 1, and on pp. 25a and 48b: “Gad de Carcassonne.” (According to EJ, Vol. 5, col. 160, the Family name “Carcassonne” was retained by several families in the region of Comtat-Venaissin, though the Jews were expelled from Carcassonne in 1394). ff. (3), 151, (1). Lightly worn, browned, few leaves loose, old candle-wax stains on pages of section entitled “Night of Tish’ah B’Av.” Contemporary calf, rubbed. 8vo. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1811.

Amsterdam: Hertz Levi Rofe and his Son-in-law Kosman 1762

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $350

The editor of this liturgy, Abraham Monteil, was a native of L’Isle (L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue), smallest of “the Four Holy Communities” of Comtat Venaissin. This region was the papal territory in Southern France that historically provided a safe haven to Jews fleeing the provinces of Languedoc and Provence, from whence they were expelled by the French monarchs. (The other three communities in this tetrapolis were: Avignon, Carpentras, and Cavaillon). Includes prayers for the two unique Communal Anniversaries commemorating delivery from danger, 15th Kislev 1512 and 9th Nissan 1682. Cecil Roth notes the volume to be “of very considerable historical and literary interest.” See C. Roth, The Liturgies of Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin, in: Journal of Jewish Bibliography (July, 1939) pp. 99-105.