Machzor [prayers throughout the year]. According to German rite. With Ma’aglei Tzedek, detailed commentary

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

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

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Lot 308

(LITURGY)

Machzor [prayers throughout the year]. According to German rite. With Ma’aglei Tzedek, detailed commentary

Two parts in two volumes. Printer’s device on titles (Yaari no.32). Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes, opening word of selected prayers within decorative woodcut borders I: ff. (3), 7-255, (3), 261-284. Neat marginal repairs to ff. 273-5, censored in places. II: ff. 88, (2), 92-286, 285-291, lacking final blank with printer’s mark on recto. Neat marginal repairs to title and few other leaves. Marginal repairs to ff.193,224 and 291 with few words provided in facsimile. Scattered marginal notations, including additional leaf of prayers in a contemporary hand bound in Vol. II. Modern uniform blind-tooled morocco. Folio Vinograd, Venice 557; Mehlman 323; Adams J-194

Venice: Giorgio di Cavalli 1568

Est: $6,000 - $8,000

PRICE REALIZED $6,000

A rare liturgical volume, one of only a handful of 16th century Machzorim prepared according to German rite. Zedner (p.466) notes an (incomplete) companion Machzor prepared according to Polish custom, but is entirely unfamiliar with the present edition