(Selichoth) [penitential prayers]

Estimate: $8,000–$10,000
Hammer price: $8,000

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

author

(LITURGY).

printer

Chaim Schwartz

Place

Augsburg

Publication

1536

Description

According to Aschkenazi rite. Printed without a title page. Initial text page enclosed by elaborate historiated woodcut border. Extensively censored (all presently decipherable)

references

Vinograd, Augsburg 9; Rosenfeld, Augsburg 45

summary

Final page with 16th-century censor’s signature, demonstrating the lack of the final 8 leaves as being a very early occurrence. Indeed the heavily censored nature of the text suggests that the ecclesiastical authorities might have found the concluding leaves of this book to “offensive” to remain at all, and were thus entirely removed

ff.105 (of 117) final 12 leaves supplied in facsimile.Wax stains, opening 8 leaves with marginal repairsModern morocco-backed marbled boards, slip-case. Sm.folio

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