Seder Hakuntress. According to the rite of “The Holy Communities that dwell in the Venaissin District.”
AUCTION 22 |
Tuesday, January 27th,
2004 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art Including Holy Land Maps, Illustrated Books, Photography and Graphic Art from The Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg of Greenwich, Conn
Lot 67
(HAGADAH)
Seder Hakuntress. According to the rite of “The Holy Communities that dwell in the Venaissin District.”
Avignon: n.p. 1765
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
Compendium of selected Festive prayers throught the year, with a complete Passover Hagadah including Seder hymns unrecorded elsewhere. The volume contains the fullest collection of ‘Obros’ - the macaronic poems of which alternate lines are in Hebrew and in Judeo-Provençal.
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 (1939) pp. 99-105. See also New York Public Library Catalogue, A Sign and a Witness (1988) no.170 (illustrated)
The Hagadah would adhere to the Sephardic rite. For example, instead of “Ve-hi she-'amdah”—”hi (without the conjunctive vav) she'amdah.” And before eating the “Hillel sandwhich:” “Zekher le-mikdash ke-hillel ha-zaken de-amar 'al matsoth u-merorim yochluhu.”