Seder Le’arba Tzomoth [prayers for the Four Fasts, Four Sabbaths and other special occasions]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $325

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(LITURGY).

printer

Hertz Levi the Physician and Son-in-Law

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1762

Description

According to the rite of Carpentras. Edited by Abraham Montel

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1811

summary

Includes prayers for the two unique Communal Anniversaries commemorating delivery from danger, 15th Kislev 1512 and 9th Nissan 1682. Cecil Roth notes the volume to be “of very considerable historical and literary interest.” See C. Roth, The Liturgies of Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin, in: Journal of Jewish Bibliography (July, 1939) pp. 99-105

ff. 2, 3, 5-151, (1). Lightly stained. Contemporary mottled calf, rubbed and shaken. 8vo

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