Machzor shel Kol Hashanna kefi Minhag Italiani [prayers for the whole year]. Acording to the custom of Italy

AUCTION 9 | Tuesday, March 28th, 2000 at 1:00

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Lot 283

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Machzor shel Kol Hashanna kefi Minhag Italiani [prayers for the whole year]. Acording to the custom of Italy

Two volumes Lightly browned with scattered dampstains. I: ff. 224 (i.e. 283). Title page and f.1 rehinged, f.169 repaired. II: ff. 322. f.209 remargined with loss of few words. Later uniform gilt-tooled black morocco boards, inlaid with blind-tooled rust morocco on covers, rubbed. With clasps and hinges. 8vo Vinograd, Venice 1988

Venice: Bragadin 1772

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

The Italian prayer rite is among the few that retained some significant vestiges of the pre-Crusader Palestinian rite. It is also characterised by a deep interest in liturgical poetry and midrashic compilations. In this rite, “the exegetical and liturgical interests of the two major centers are...seen to...come together nicely.” S.C. Reif, Judaism and Hebrew Prayer (1993), pp. 164-5