The Worms Machzor

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $1,500

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

author

(LITURGY)

Place

Vaduz & Jerusalem

Publication

1985

Description

ONE OF 330 NUMBERED COPIES. Facsimile edition. Two volumes. Plates and Text (prepared by Malachi Beit-Arie). WIth additional portfolio containing two facsimile leaves

summary

“One of the earliest dated (1272) illuminated Machzorim from Southern Germany.”

Original lavishly blind-tooled calf with corner-pieces, clasps and hinges, text vol: calf-backed boards; solander box. Thick folio

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