(LITURGY).

Estimate: $1,500–$2,500
Hammer price: $2,750

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printer

Gershom Soncino

Place

(Rimini)

Publication

1521

Description

Machzor Hashalom ... Minhag Romi [prayers for the entire year, including Passover Hagadah, Ethics of the Fathers, Maimonides’ ethical treatise Shemonah Perakim, the Books of Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Jonah and Ecclesiastes, various laws relating, birth, family purity, marriage, burial, etc.]

references

Vinograd, Rimini 3; Y.Y. Cohen, Bibliographia shel Machzorim...Lephi Minhag Bnai Roma (1966) no. 4; not in Adams

summary

Prayers according to Italian (“Lo’azim”) rite. The first printed edition was produced by an earlier generation of Soncinos in Casal Maggiore, 1485-86

ff. 281 (of 290), lacking title, ff. 3, 7-12 and 23. Variously stained and wormed, paper repairs occasionally affecting text

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