Auction 14 · Lot 253

Machzor [prayers throughout the year]. According to German rite. With Ma’aglei Tzedek, detailed commentary

Estimate: $6,000–$8,000
Hammer price: $16,000

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author

(LITURGY)

printer

Giorgio di Cavalli

Place

Venice

Publication

1568

Description

Two parts in one. Printer’s device on title (Yaari no.32). Additional 32 pages of manuscript prayers in a contemporary hand bound between the two parts. Marginal notations

references

Vinograd, Venice 557; Mehlman 323

summary

A rare liturgical volume, one of only a handful of 16th century Machzorim prepared according to German rite. Zedner (p.466) notes an (incomplete) companion Machzor prepared according to Polish custom, but is entirely unfamiliar with the present edition. Initial end-papers with the signature of Raphael Segal, son of the Communal leader (“Borer Hamedina”) Aaron Segal of Silsheim, Alsace. Also with manuscript record of anniversaries of the Segal Family. The Machzor is replete with marginal notes, in more than one hand, pertaining to particular synagogal custom and correct reading of the prayers. Most notations in a late 16th century Aschkenazi hand, see especially the lengthy directive concerning supplications to be recited during the New Year sounding of the Shophar (p.60v) MEMO: I: ff. (3), 7-255, (3), 261-284. II: 88, (2), 92-286, 285-291, lacking final blank with printer’s mark on recto. f.94 in duplicate. Lacking lower corner of f. 96, clean tear on f.133.

ff.284;291. Opening four leaves supplied in facsimile, following few leaves with loss of few words, second title repaired with loss of two lower lines, marginal paper repairs. Recased in modern boards retaining majority of contemporary blind-tooled calf covers. Folio. Detailed collation and condition report available upon request

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