(FRANCE).

AUCTION 65 | Thursday, June 25th, 2015 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art

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Lot 133

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A group of six liturgical volumes. Including four volumes of liturgy according to the exotic rite of the community of Carpentras. <<*>> 1. Monteil, Abraham, (Ed.) Seder le-Arba Tzomoth u-le-Arba Parshiyoth ke-Minhag K.K. Carpentras [Prayer Book for the Four Fasts and Four Special Readings According to the rite of the Community of Carpentras]. ff. (2), 1-3, 5-151, (1). Amsterdam, Hertz Levi Rofe and his son-in-law Kosman, 1762. <<*>> 2. Seder Le-Shalosh Regalim ke-Minhag K.K. Carpentras [prayers for the holidays of Pesach, Shavuoth and Sukoth, including Hagadah for Pesach. According to the rite of the Community of Carpentras]. ff. (2), 219. Amsterdam, Hertz Levi Rofe and his son-in-law Kosman, 1759. <<*>> 3. Seder le-Yamim Nora’im ke-Minhag K.K. Carpentras [Prayer Book for Day of Atonement according to the rite of the Community of Carpentras]. ff. (2), 185. Amsterdam, Hertz Levi Rofe, 1739. <<*>> 4. Seder HaTamid [prayers for the entire year, and Scriptural Readings] Part I. Edited by Elijah Cremieux. ff. (3), 136, 136-143, (10), 6. Avignon, 1767. <<*>> Accompanied by: Machzor shel Kol Hashana kefi Minhag Italiani [Prayers for the whole year according to the custom of Italy]. Two volumes. ff. 284, 322. Venice, Bragadin, 1772. Some wear, variously bound. 8vo. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1811, Vinograd, Amsterdam 1776; Vinograd, Amsterdam 1497, Vinograd, Avignon 2; Vinograd, Venice 1988.

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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.