Machzor kephi HaNahug LeKahal Kadosh Roma [Festival Prayers]. According to Roman Rite

AUCTION 26 | Monday, November 22nd, 2004 at 1:00

Exceptional Printed Books, Sixty-Five Hebrew Incunabula: The Elkan Nathan Adler-Wineman Family Collection

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Machzor kephi HaNahug LeKahal Kadosh Roma [Festival Prayers]. According to Roman Rite

FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Volume I: Passover and Pentecost (includes the Passover Hagadah and Ethics of the Fathers). * Volume II: New Year, Day of Atonement, Feast of Tabernacles. Texts in square letters, vocalized; instructions in Rashi script. A horizontal line over the letters beith, chaph, phei, and thav indicates that these consonants are soft (raphah). We have seen that the House of Gunzenhauser in Naples adopted the same technique with the exception that the letter “phei” did not receive this treatment. Initials floriated; initial (“hoshanah”) on f.117v. floriated and wedged between fleur-de-lis devices; the word “matzah' in the Hagadah floriated on round seder plate (f.35r.). Owner's inscription on front blank of Vol. I. Censorship on ff. 99r., 103r., 110, 111r, 118v. Marginalium on f.54 of Vol. II ff. 122 (of 165). f.104 bound upside down. Several leaves laid to size with some loss of text, few tears expertly repaired. Stained and wormed in places. Vol. I: Modern calf. Vol. II: Later tree-calf; rubbed. 4to Vinograd, Soncino 12; Goff 73; Goldstein 33; Offenberg 83; Steinschneider, p. 393, no. 2576; Thes. A37; Wineman Cat. 21. Not in Cambridge University

Soncino-Casal Maggiore: Soncino Sons 1485-6

Est: $100,000 - $120,000

PRICE REALIZED $82,500

“This magnificent incunable is one of Soncino’s most outstanding productions. It is the first book fully vocalised with woodcut headings all the way through the text. It is the only book printed in Casal Maggiore and took a whole year to print due to the complexity of the contents, or more likely due to the recurrent problems the Soncinos had with the ruling authorities.” (Wineman Catalogue)