Machzor Lenusach Barcelona, Minhag Catalonia [prayers for the New Year and Day of Atonement]

AUCTION 7 | Tuesday, June 22nd, 1999 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 462

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Machzor Lenusach Barcelona, Minhag Catalonia [prayers for the New Year and Day of Atonement]

According to the rite of Barcelona. Printed in square Hebrew Spanish type ff. 174 (of 192). ff.1, 6-7,12-13,136-9,145,179,187-8,191 supplied in fascimile, lacking ff. 133,139(?),181,192(blank?). Lightly browned, a few inner margins strenghtened, manuscript notations in an early hand. Modern vellum. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Salonika 37; Mehlman 339; Deinard, Atikoth Yehudah pp.26-7; not in Adams

Salonika: Moses Soncino 1526

Est: $8,000 - $10,000

Important Prayer-Book According to the Custom of Catalonia. Highly uncommon. No copy in the British Library, JNUL Copy Incomplete. Spain, the home of Hebrew poetry, produced so many composers of Piyutim that almost every Spanish city had its own ritual. After the Spanish Exile however, a uniform ritual was adopted by all (Spanish) Sephardim with the exception of the Catalonian and Aragonian congregations of Salonika, who preserved their unique liturgical rituals for centuries. See S.R. Reif, Judaism and Hebrew Prayer (1993) pp.201-2