(FRENCH JUDAICA)

AUCTION 36 | Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books & Manuscripts

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Lot 76

(FRENCH JUDAICA)

(Liturgy). Vidal, Isaiah and Ventura, Mordechai, eds. Seder ha-Kunteres…ke-Minhag Kehiloth ha-Kodesh she-bi-Mechoz Venaissin. [Compendium of selected festive prayers throughout the year according to the rite of the Holy Communities in the Venaissin District]. Includes Passover Hagadah ff.59 (i.e. 56). f.43 torn, text slightly affected. Waterstained. Hagadah winestained. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary mottled calf gilt, rubbed. Lg. 4to Vinograd, Avignon 1; Hagadah unlisted

Avignon: n.p. 1765

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $1,400

A distinctively emblematic text of the particular species of Jewish culture and practice that evolved in Avignon and the neighboring communities. The volume contains the fullest collection of “Obros,’” the macaronic poems of which alternate lines are in Hebrew and in Judeo-Provençal (see e.g. ff.47-8). The Passover Hagadah includes Seder hymns unrecorded elsewhere. See New York Public Library Catalogue, A Sign and a Witness (1988), no.170 (illustrated)