Seder Hakuntress. According to the rite of “The Holy Communities that dwell in the Venaissin District.”

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Lot 110

(HAGADAH)

Seder Hakuntress. According to the rite of “The Holy Communities that dwell in the Venaissin District.”

Prepared by Isaiah Vidal and Mordechai Ventura ff.59 (i.e. 56). Creased, wine-stained. Contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, spine gilt-tooled “Aegada.” Lg. 4to Vinograd, Avignon 1; unlisted by Yudlov, Otzar Ha’Hagadoth

Avignon: n.p. 1765

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

Compendium of selected Festive prayers throught the year, with a complete Passover Hagadah including Seder hymns unrecorded elsewhere. The volume contains the fullest collection of ‘Obros’ - the macaronic poems of which alternate lines are in Hebrew and in Judeo-Provençal. A distinctively emblematic text of the particular species of Jewish culture and practice that evolved in the Jewish Communities of Avignon and the neighboring territory. See C. Roth, The Liturgies of Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin in: Journal of Jewish Bibliography (1939) pp. 99-105. See also New York Public Library Catalogue, A Sign and a Witness (1988) no.170 (illustrated)