Machzor Keminhag Roma [prayers for the entire year]. According to Italian rite. Includes Passover Hagadah, Ethics of the Fathers, Biblical Books and laws relating to Festivals

AUCTION 41 | Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 1:00

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Machzor Keminhag Roma [prayers for the entire year]. According to Italian rite. Includes Passover Hagadah, Ethics of the Fathers, Biblical Books and laws relating to Festivals

Parts I and II bound in one volume. Title within architectural arch. Initial letters within cartouches, f.48b (Hagadah) with woodcut illustrations of cuffed hands pointing to Matzah and Bitter Herbs. Printed in two columns. Some portions lightly censored, censors signatures on final leaf. ff. 210. Variously stained, some worming, few leaves frayed, taped repairs, with occasional minor loss. Old calf, rebacked. Folio Vinograd, Mantua 42 ; Y.Y. Cohen, Bibliographia shel Machzorim...Lephi Minhag Bnai Roma (1966), no. 9; not in Adams

Mantua: Jacob of Gazolo (1557-60)

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $1,900

Although the title states "chelek rishon", in reality it contains Part II as well. The first part concludes at the end of the first column on f. 117 and Part II begins on the second column. Not surprisingly, the text from the Aleinu prayers: "Sheheim mishtachavim umithpalelim" ("they bow and pray“) has been attended to by the censor (f. 128b). After having served at the press of Foa in Sabbioneta, Jacob ben Naphtali Cohen of Gazolo came to Mantua in 1556 and during the following eight years established a “splendid record for good typographical work.” D. Amram The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy (1963) p. 325.