(Machzor) [Festival prayers]. According to the custom of the Island of Corfu. Manuscript in square Greek Hebrew script. Black ink on thick paper. Ten Commandments on ff.101v-102r set within arched Tablet-form red border

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 632
(LITURGY).

(Machzor) [Festival prayers]. According to the custom of the Island of Corfu. Manuscript in square Greek Hebrew script. Black ink on thick paper. Ten Commandments on ff.101v-102r set within arched Tablet-form red border

ff.(169). Stamp at end of Rev. B. Rodrigues-Pereira Minimally stained. Modern morocco, slip-case. 8vo

Corfu: Mid 19th-century

Est: $5,000 - $6,000
PRICE REALIZED $5,000
The Jews of this Greek island in the Ionian Group preserved the ancient Byzantine rite known as Minhag Corfu. By the mid 19th-century when this manuscript was penned, this indigenous rite had all but disappeared