Machzor Leyamim Noraim [for the days of Awe]. According to Aschkenazi rite. Scribe: Raphael ben Mordechai Moses Luzzatti

AUCTION 2 | Tuesday, June 03rd, 1997 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art Including Property from a Dutch Private Collector and the Late T. Nachum Gidal

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Lot 187

(LITURGY)

Machzor Leyamim Noraim [for the days of Awe]. According to Aschkenazi rite. Scribe: Raphael ben Mordechai Moses Luzzatti

Manuscript, in variously sized square Italian Hebrew scripts, black ink on paper, 390pp. Title within simple geometric border. Instructions in Hebrew, occasionally Italian Modern half-calf retaining contemporary gilt-stamped backstrip, folio

Asti: 9th Sivan 1887 (viz. title)

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,200

A beautifully composed liturgical manuscript by a scribe of illustrious lineage, from this Piedmontese city within which barely 100 Jews resided