Auction 3 · Lot 153

Machzor Kephi Minhag Roma. According to Italian rite. With Kimcha De’avishona by Yochanan Treves, and commentaries by Ovadiah Sforno and Maimonides. Includes the Ethics of the Fathers

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $1,700

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author

(LITURGY)

printer

Menachem ben Abraham of Modena & Partners

Place

Bologna

Publication

1540

Description

Two volumes (mixed set). Titles within elaborate frames, many initial letters within cartouches. First volume: The Elkan Nathan Adler and (later) the Chief Rabbi Hermann Adler copy. Marginal notations in more than one early Italian hand, noting variations in custom and in one instance quoting the Responsa of Benjamin Ze’ev (see lot 41)

references

Vinograd, Bologna 16 ; Y.Y. Cohen, no. 7; Adams J-200

summary

Includes prayers for the entire year, including Passover Hagadah, Ethics of the Fathers, the Books of Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Jonah and Ecclesiastes, various laws relating to birth, family purity, marriage, burial, etc. First edition of Treves’ commentary elucidating the subject matter of the prayers and the meaning and derivation of phrases

ff. 197 and 189. Signed by censors at end. Censored portions often replaced in manuscript. Marginal paper repairs, title of first vol. laid down, second vol. shorter with few leaves supplied from another copy. Portion of a Hebrew printed Eulogy (Italy, 1782) for the philanthropist Jacob Manto used as binder’s blank. 19th-century boards, backstrip of first removed revealing spine made up of manuscript leaf with Hebrew cantorial musical notations, second retaining covers of an earlier binding. Folio

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