Sepher MaHaRI”L [customs for the entire year according to Aschkenazi rite]

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: $2,500

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

author

MOELLIN, JACOB BEN MOSES HALEVI

printer

Tobias Foa

Place

Sabbioneta

Publication

1556

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title letters within historiated vignettes. Woodcut printer’s mark on verso of final leaf.

references

Vinograd, Sabbioneta 34; Adams J-26

summary

The most important source for ritual customs (minhagim), both within and without the synagogue. It paints a most faithful picture of the religious and social life of the German Jews in the 14th and15th centuries.

ff. 116. Lightly browned and stained in places, few leaves re-margined, marginalia, stamps. Contemporary vellum, re-backed. Sm. 4to

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