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

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

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author

(LITURGY)

printer

Giorgio di Cavalli

Place

Venice

Publication

1568

Description

Two parts in two volumes. Printer’s device on titles (Yaari no.32). Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes, opening word of selected prayers within decorative woodcut borders

references

Vinograd, Venice 557; Mehlman 323; Adams J-194

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

I: ff. (3), 7-255, (3), 261-284. Neat marginal repairs to ff. 273-5, censored in places. II: ff. 88, (2), 92-286, 285-291, lacking final blank with printer’s mark on recto. Neat marginal repairs to title and few other leaves. Marginal repairs to ff.193,224 and 291 with few words provided in facsimile. Scattered marginal notations, including additional leaf of prayers in a contemporary hand bound in Vol. II. Modern uniform blind-tooled morocco. Folio

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