Machzor. According to Roman rite. With Kimcha De’Avishona by Yochanan Treves and commentaries by Ovadiah Sforno and Moses Maimonides.
AUCTION 58 |
Thursday, May 02nd,
2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters
Lot 215
(LITURGY).
Machzor. According to Roman rite. With Kimcha De’Avishona by Yochanan Treves and commentaries by Ovadiah Sforno and Moses Maimonides.
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).