(Machzor) [Festival prayers]. According to the custom of the Island of Corfu. Manuscript in square Greek Hebrew script. Black ink on thick paper. Ten Commandments on ff.101v-102r set within arched Tablet-form red border

Estimate: $5,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $5,000

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author

(LITURGY).

Place

Corfu

Publication

Mid 19th-century

Description

ff.(169). Stamp at end of Rev. B. Rodrigues-Pereira

summary

The Jews of this Greek island in the Ionian Group preserved the ancient Byzantine rite known as Minhag Corfu. By the mid 19th-century when this manuscript was penned, this indigenous rite had all but disappeared

Minimally stained. Modern morocco, slip-case. 8vo

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