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Auction 9 · Lot 284

Machzor Mikol Hashanah [festival prayers for the whole year]. According to Ashkenazi rite. With additional prayers extracted from Chemdath Hayamim

Estimate
$800–$1,200
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

(LITURGY)

printer

Mordechai ben Chaim David Segal

Place

Lemberg

Publication

1781

references

Unknown to Vinograd

summary

An Unrecorded Prayer-Book. The controversial ethical treatise Chemdath Hayamim contains prayers composed by the Sabbathian “prophet” Nathan of Gaza
ff.203 (of 205). Lacking ff.3 and189, crude paper repairs to ff.115-118,154-156 with loss. Browned and stained, thumbed throughout, title page frayed at edges with loss, variously worn, few margins repaired. Later boards, rubbed. 4to
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