Machzor Kephi Minhag Roma. According to Italian rite. With Kimcha De’avishona by Yochanan Treves, and commentaries by Ovadiah Sforno and Maimonides. Includes the Ethics of the Fathers.

Estimate: $4,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $4,750

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author

(LITURGY)

printer

Menachem ben Abraham of Modena & Partners

Place

Bologna

Publication

1540

Description

Two volumes. Titles within elaborate frames, many initial letters within cartouches.

references

Vinograd, Bologna 16; Y.Y. Cohen, no. 7; Adams J-200

summary

Prayers for the entire year, including Passover Hagadah, Ethics of the Fathers, the Books of Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Jonah and Ecclesiastes, various laws relating to birth, family purity, marriage, burial, etc. With the first edition of Treves’ commentary elucidating the subject matter of the prayers and the meaning and derivation of phrases.

I: ff. 200. Collates as per Adams. Lacking small portion of f. 11, supplied in facsimile, lightly browned, scattered stains, marginal worming neatly repaired. II: ff. 189. Neat marginal repairs to ff. 3-5, last two leaves rehinged, signed by censor on verso of final leaf. Uniform modern blind-tooled morocco. Sm.folio

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