Tephilah kephi Minhag Roma [prayers for the entire year]. According to Roman rite.

AUCTION 74 | Thursday, November 09th, 2017 at 1:00

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

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Tephilah kephi Minhag Roma [prayers for the entire year]. According to Roman rite.

The Israel Mehlman copy with his notes on opening paste-down. ff. 282 (of 352). Variously stained, many leaves remargined. Many leaves provided in facsimile (collation available upon request). Modern calf. Thick 12mo.

Bologna:

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,750

<<No complete paper copy of this Machzor is extant.>> For the vellum issue see Pierpont Morgan Library Catalogue, Hebraica from the Valmadonna Trust (1989) no. 27. The second of only nine books printed by the Jewish Silk Weaver’s Guild who operated a Hebrew Press at Bologna between 1537 and 1540. Each work was beautifully prepared, a tribute to the involvement of Jewish artisans and craftsmen in the formative years of Hebrew printing. See S.C. Reif, Judaism and Hebrew Prayer (1993) pp. 164-66; Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy, pp. 232-35.