Seder Avodah LeYom HaKipurim [Service for Yom Kippur]. With Maimonides' Hilchoth Avodath Yom HaKipurim

AUCTION 41 | Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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Lot 42
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Seder Avodah LeYom HaKipurim [Service for Yom Kippur]. With Maimonides' Hilchoth Avodath Yom HaKipurim

Title within typographic border ff. (10). Leaves laid to size. Title lacking portion of border, browned. Modern wrappers. 8vo Unrecorded in all relevant bibliographies

London: n.p. 1712

Est: $3,000 - $5,000
PRICE REALIZED $4,500
Exceedingly Rare Early London Imprint of the Seder Avodah Our text of the Seder Ha’Avodah (a narration of the ritual that took place in the Second Temple on the Day of Atonement), is the version in use in Sephardic congregations and is traditionally attributed to Yosé ben Yosé (fourth or fifth century). Aschkenazic congregations have opted for a later narration of the Seder Avodah by the Italian-German poet Meshullam ben Kalonymus (tenth-eleventh century). See EJ, Vol. III, cols. 976-980; Vol. XVI, cols. 856-7