Machzor Kephi Minhag Roma. According to Italian rite. With Kimcha De’avishona by Yochanan Treves, and commentaries by Ovadiah Sforno and Maimonides. Includes the Ethics of the Fathers

AUCTION 3 | Tuesday, November 25th, 1997 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Printed Books Duplicates from the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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Machzor Kephi Minhag Roma. According to Italian rite. With Kimcha De’avishona by Yochanan Treves, and commentaries by Ovadiah Sforno and Maimonides. Includes the Ethics of the Fathers

Two volumes (mixed set). Titles within elaborate frames, many initial letters within cartouches. First volume: The Elkan Nathan Adler and (later) the Chief Rabbi Hermann Adler copy. Marginal notations in more than one early Italian hand, noting variations in custom and in one instance quoting the Responsa of Benjamin Ze’ev (see lot 41) ff. 197 and 189. Signed by censors at end. Censored portions often replaced in manuscript. Marginal paper repairs, title of first vol. laid down, second vol. shorter with few leaves supplied from another copy. Portion of a Hebrew printed Eulogy (Italy, 1782) for the philanthropist Jacob Manto used as binder’s blank. 19th-century boards, backstrip of first removed revealing spine made up of manuscript leaf with Hebrew cantorial musical notations, second retaining covers of an earlier binding. Folio Vinograd, Bologna 16 ; Y.Y. Cohen, no. 7; Adams J-200

Bologna: Menachem ben Abraham of Modena & Partners 1540

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,700

Includes prayers for the entire year, including Passover Hagadah, Ethics of the Fathers, the Books of Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Jonah and Ecclesiastes, various laws relating to birth, family purity, marriage, burial, etc. First edition of Treves’ commentary elucidating the subject matter of the prayers and the meaning and derivation of phrases