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 12 | Tuesday, March 13th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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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. Titles within elaborate frames, many initial letters within cartouches. I: ff. 200. Collates as per Adams. Lacking small portion of f. 11, supplied in facsimile, lightly browned, scattered stains, marginal worming neatly repaired. II: ff. 189. Neat marginal repairs to ff. 3-5, last two leaves rehinged, signed by censor on verso of final leaf. Uniform modern blind-tooled morocco. Sm.folio Vinograd, Bologna 16; Y.Y. Cohen, no. 7; Adams J-200

Bologna: Menachem ben Abraham of Modena & Partners 1540

Est: $4,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,750

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. With the first edition of Treves’ commentary elucidating the subject matter of the prayers and the meaning and derivation of phrases.