Sidur HaTephiloth Keminhag HaKara’im [prayers for the entire year]. According to Karaite rite.

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Sidur HaTephiloth Keminhag HaKara’im [prayers for the entire year]. According to Karaite rite.

FIRST EDITION. Five parts bound in four volumes. The Valmadonna Trust Copy, in a distictive elegant binding. Vol. IV with ownership note dated 1717. Vol. I: Entirely in facsimile (ff.110, ff. 60). * Vol. II: ff. 165 ( a few lines of f. 133 supplied in facsimile). * Vol. III: ff. 54 (of 56, ff. 55-56 in facsimile, small portion of f. 1 in facsimile). * Vol. IV: ff. 57-213 (ff. 57-63 in facsimile); ff.49, (6), 50-105, 105-133, 133-224 (ff. 194 and 222-24 in facsimile). Some staining, scattered marginalia, few leaves remargined. Modern morocco-backed marbled boards. 4to Vinograd, Venice 135; Mehlman 1838 (incomplete); Haberman, Bomberg 145; not in Adams

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1528-29

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

A Sixteenth Century Machzor of Remarkable Rarity. Only one complete copy extant, found in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Karaism had its beginings in the 8th-century, breaking with Rabbinic tradition by rejecting the Talmud and declaring Biblical law to be the sole basis of Judaism. Karaite liturgy dictates for two daily prayer services, in the morning and evening. Karaite liturgy has little similarity with its Rabbinic counterpart. Prayers referring to the Temple sacrifices form the main basis of Karaite rite, as well as passages from the Bible, along with liturgical poetry unknown to Rabbinic rites. See: EJ, X cols.780-1.