Seder Hakuntress. According to the rite of “The Holy Communities that dwell in the Venaissin District.”

Estimate

$2,000–$2,500

Hammer price

$2,000

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author

(HAGADAH)

printer

n.p.

Place

Avignon

Publication

1765

Description

Prepared by Isaiah Vidal and Mordechai Ventura

references

Vinograd, Avignon 1; unlisted by Yudlov, Otzar Ha’Hagadoth

summary

Compendium of selected Festive prayers throught the year, with a complete Passover Hagadah including Seder hymns unrecorded elsewhere. The volume contains the fullest collection of ‘Obros’ - the macaronic poems of which alternate lines are in Hebrew and in Judeo-Provençal. A distinctively emblematic text of the particular species of Jewish culture and practice that evolved in the Jewish Communities of Avignon and the neighboring territory. See C. Roth, The Liturgies of Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin in: Journal of Jewish Bibliography (1939) pp. 99-105. See also New York Public Library Catalogue, A Sign and a Witness (1988) no.170 (illustrated)

ff.59 (i.e. 56). Creased, wine-stained. Contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, spine gilt-tooled “Aegada.” Lg. 4to

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