Seder shel Yom Kippur [Festival prayer for the Day of Atonement]. According to the rite of Avignon. Edited by Abraham Monteil

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Seder shel Yom Kippur [Festival prayer for the Day of Atonement]. According to the rite of Avignon. Edited by Abraham Monteil

Title within typographical border. Floral woodcut on last page. Owner’s Hebrew signature on title: “Abraham Asher ben Yitzhak Berlin.” Another owner’s French signature on p. 16a: “Carcassone Lejeune.” ff. 89. Marbled endpapers. Browning. Dampstained in places. Calf. Large 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1900

Amsterdam: Hertz Levi the Physician and his Son-in-Law Kosman 1766

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $650

A distinctively emblematic text of the particular species of Jewish culture and practice that evolved in the Jewish Communities of Avignon and the neighboring territory. See C. Roth, The Liturgies of Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin in: Journal of Jewish Bibliography I (1939) pp. 99-105.