Sepher MaHaRI”L [Jewish laws and customs for the entire year, according to Aschkenazi rite]

AUCTION 39 | Thursday, April 03rd, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 237

MOELLIN, JACOB BEN MOSES HALEVI

Sepher MaHaRI”L [Jewish laws and customs for the entire year, according to Aschkenazi rite]

Second Edition. Opening word within woodcut vignette. On front fly, signatures of former owners in Hebrew and Italian. Earlier: "Yitzchak Cohen Pavia, 1755," and later: "Caliman Sacerd. Pavia di Casale Monferatto, 1770," "Kalman Yehudah Cohen mi-Casale." ff.120. Stained in places. Tops of several leaves chewed. Recent boards. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Cremona 23; Benayahu, Cremona 19; not in Adams

Cremona: Vicenzo Conti 1558

Est: $1,000 - $1,200

Important source for ritual customs (Minhag), both within and without the synagogue. The work paints a most faithful picture of the religious and social life of the German Jews in the 14th and 15th centuries