Sepher Mo’adei Hashem Ukeri’ei Mo’ed [Machzor for Three Festivals]

AUCTION 24 | Tuesday, June 29th, 2004 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg

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Sepher Mo’adei Hashem Ukeri’ei Mo’ed [Machzor for Three Festivals]

Two volumes. Vol. I title within typographic border; additional title with woodcut of Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Vol. II title contains woodcut of Temple Mount I: ff. (5), 4-20, 25-97, 62, 41-68. II: ff. (2), 5-108, 77. Marginal repairs to titles of both volumes; stained and wormed. Recent endpapers. Contemporary calf. 4to Halevy 19, 20

Jerusalem: Israel ben Abraham (Bak) 1843-1844

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,250

FIRST MACHZOR PRINTED IN JERUSALEM Vol. I contains the festival prayer for Passover and Pentecost; Vol. II for the Feast of Tabernacles. Vol. II was published in 1843, a year earlier than Vol. I. The title proclaims that the book was executed upon the press of Moses and Judith (Montefiore). Sir Moses and his wife Lady Judith Montefiore of Ramsgate, England donated the printing press to establish the publishing industry in Eretz Israel. With the Haskamoth (encomia) of the Rishon Le-Tzion (Sephardic Chief Rabbi), Hayim Abraham Gaguine, and of the Chief Rabbi of Damascus, R. Jacob Antebi. On f. 51v. of Vol. I the blessing for the Turkish Sultan has “Peloni” (Anonymous) rather than “Abdulmecid” as in other variants. See Halevi, p. 12.