Seder le-Arba Tzomoth u-le-Arba Parshiyoth ke-Minhag K”K Carpentras [The Carpentras Rite for Four Fasts and Four Special Readings]

AUCTION 31 | Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 at 1:00

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Seder le-Arba Tzomoth u-le-Arba Parshiyoth ke-Minhag K”K Carpentras [The Carpentras Rite for Four Fasts and Four Special Readings]

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographic border. Tailpieces. Signature and stamps of former owner, “Leon Alphandery, Salon.” ff. (2), 1-3, 5-151, (1). Appropriately enough, tallow on pages of section entitled “Night of Tish’ah be-Av.” Contemporary calf, spine in compartments, gilt. Rubbed. 8vo Vinograd, Amsterdam 1811

Amsterdam: Hertz Levi Rofe and his son-in-law Kosman 1762

Est: $400 - $600

Abraham Monteil, editor of this prayer book, was a native of L’Isle (L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue), smallest of “the four holy communities” of Comtat Venaissin, the papal territory in Southern France that historically provided a safe haven for Jews fleeing the provinces of Languedoc and Provence, from whence they were expelled by the French monarchs. (The other three communities in this tetrapolis were: Avignon, Carpentras, and Cavaillon.) The Jews of the Comtat had their own synagogue rite, which has fallen into disuse. See C.Roth, “The Liturgy of Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin,” Journal of Jewish Bibliography I (1939) p. 99-105; reprinted in Cecil Roth, Studies in Books and Booklore (1972), pp. 81-87; EJ, Vol. V, cols. 208, 859; Vol. IX, col.105; Vol. XI, col. 402