Sepher MaHaRI”L [customs for the entire year according to Aschkenazi rite]

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

Fine Judaica: Printed Books & Manuscripts

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Lot 155

MOELLIN, JACOB BEN MOSES HALEVI.

Sepher MaHaRI”L [customs for the entire year according to Aschkenazi rite]

FIRST EDITION. Title letters within floriated vignettes. On title, signatures of former owners. On verso of final leaf, woodcut printer's mark containing two rampant lions flanking a palm tree in whose center there is a Star of David, all within a cartouche; surrounding are the words, “A just man will flourish as a palm tree” (Psalms 92:13) and the name “Tobias Foa.” (See Ya'ari, p. 13, pl. 21; p. 133). Censors' signature on recto of final leaf, “Gio[vanni] Dominico Carretto” dated 1610,(see Wm. Popper, pl. III, no. 7) ff. 116. Slight marginal fraying of lower corners of some leaves, stained in places. Modern blind-tooled calf depicting a crowned rampant lion. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Sabbioneta 34; Adams J-26; St. Cat. Bodl. col. 1228; no. 5567-1 (ed. rarissiram); Deinard, Atikoth Yehudah, p. 25

Sabbioneta: Tobias Foa 1556

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $5,000

The Sepher MaHaRI”L is the most important source for ritual customs (minhagim), both within and without the synagogue. It paints a most faithful picture of the religious and social life of German Jewry in the 14th and15th centuries. On the printer Tobias Foa, see Ya'ari, Mechkarei Sepher (1958), p. 345