Machzor. According to Roman rite. With Kimcha De’Avishona by Yochanan Treves and commentaries by Ovadiah Sforno and Moses Maimonides.

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Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Machzor. According to Roman rite. With Kimcha De’Avishona by Yochanan Treves and commentaries by Ovadiah Sforno and Moses Maimonides.

Two volumes. Titles within elaborate frames, many initial letters within cartouches. Scattered marginalia and corrections in an Italian hand. Vol. I: ff. 200. * Vol. II: ff. 189. Trimmed and stained, variously repaired with some loss, titles laid down slightly affecting border. Modern calf-backed boards, slip-case. Sm. folio. Vinograd, Bologna 16; Adams J-200.

Bologna: Menachem ben Abraham of Modena & Partners 1540

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,100

Prayers for the entire year, including Passover Hagadah, Ethics of the Fathers, the Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Jonah and Ecclesiastes, various laws relating to birth, family purity, marriage, burial, etc. Includes the first appearance of Treves’s commentary elucidating the subject matter of the prayers and the meaning and derivation of phrases. For a thorough, scholarly discussion of this Roman rite, see Samuel David Luzzatto, Mavo LeMachzor Bnei Roma, with notes and additional material by Daniel Goldschmidt and a bibliography by Y. Y. Cohen (Tel-Aviv, 1966).