Seder shel Yom Kippur [Festival prayer for the Day of Atonement]. According to the rite of Avignon. Edited by Abraham Monteil

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $650

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author

(LITURGY)

printer

Hertz Levi the Physician and his Son-in-Law Kosman

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1766

Description

Title within typographical border. Floral woodcut on last page. Owner’s Hebrew signature on title: “Abraham Asher ben Yitzhak Berlin.” Another owner’s French signature on p. 16a: “Carcassone Lejeune.”

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1900

summary

A distinctively emblematic text of the particular species of Jewish culture and practice that evolved in the Jewish Communities of Avignon and the neighboring territory. See C. Roth, The Liturgies of Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin in: Journal of Jewish Bibliography I (1939) pp. 99-105.

ff. 89. Marbled endpapers. Browning. Dampstained in places. Calf. Large 4to.

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