Sepher MaHaRI”L [laws and customs for the entire year]

AUCTION 53 | Thursday, December 08th, 2011 at 1:00

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

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Lot 188

MOELLIN, JACOB

Sepher MaHaRI”L [laws and customs for the entire year]

Includes scarce supplement of prayers at end. ff. (236), (35). Ex-library, tiny wormhole on some leaves. Modern calf. 12mo Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 78 (differing pagination); Friedberg, Mem 857

Frankfurt a/Main: 1687

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

The most important source for ritual customs (minhagim), both within and without the synagogue according to Aschkenazi rite. The work paints a most faithful picture of the religious and social life of the German Jews in the 14th- and 15th-centuries. The final 35 leaves contain a highly scarce Siddur printed in rabbinic type and lacking from most copies.