(FRANCE).

AUCTION 65 |
Thursday, June 25th,
2015 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art
Lot 133
(FRANCE).
v.p: v.d
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $2,200
Abraham Monteil, editor of these prayer books, was a native of L’Isle (L’Isle sur la Sorgue), smallest of “the four holy communities” of Comtat Venaissin, the Papal territory in Southern France that historically provided a safe haven for Jews fleeing the provinces of Languedoc and Provence, from whence they were expelled by the French monarchs. (The other three communities in this tetrapolis were: Avignon, Carpentras, and Cavaillon.) The Jews of the Comtat had their own synagogue rite, which has today fallen into disuse.
See C. Roth, “The Liturgy of Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin,” Journal of Jewish Bibliography I (1939) p. 99-105; reprinted in Cecil Roth, Studies in Books and Booklore (1972), pp. 81-87; EJ, Vol. V, cols. 208, 859; Vol. IX, col. 105; Vol. XI, col. 402.